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Böschenstein, Johann · 1700 · [Johann Conrad von Mechel I] · 1 picture

A devotional songbook of two sacred hymns, attributed to Johann Böschenstein and published around 1700, probably in a German-speaking region, for lay Christian readers. The single woodcut shows the Crucifixion in a crude, bold line style with a crowd of onlookers and a mourning woman in a hooded cloak, offering a designer strong black-line figure compositions and a simple narrative tableau that works well for stark, graphic religious imagery.

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