Master of Delft Lot n° 3

Master of Delft - Christ healing the blind / Description: Christ healing the blind. Three scenes with Christ and the blind Bartimaeus. Christ as a result meet blind. Top right: Christ healing the blind. Top left: healed man follows Christ. On the backside another woodcut (15,50 x 9,60 cm) printed from four blocks, subject: the last supper and Zacharias in the tree) Full page incunabula woodcut from Ludolphus de Saxonia, "Dit es dleué our love, lords ihesu christi". Anonymous Dutch translation. Published by Henrick Eckert van Homberch in Antwerp in 1503. Botke, K. These 113 woodcuts, which have mostly been used in early Dutch books, are attributed to the second Master of Delft, the Master of the Delbecq-Schreiber passion and the Master of the Virgo inter Virgines. / Dimensions: 18,80 x 15,00 cm / Condition: Excellent condition. / Literature: Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-2051 --- Conway (1884) and in "The guilder compass" (1951). Botke, K. --- Prof. Henri Defoer, history of the woodcuts from the Ludolphus editions. ( Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis 24/2017) / Medium: Old colored woodcut /Circa: 1480-1503