The Flagellation, from the Mysteries of the Rosary
c. 1490
Medium
Engraving in gray on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/sheet: 22.3 × 16.3 cm (8 13/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
73397
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
One of the earliest print cycles offered with its own framing devices was the Florentine printmaker and dealer Francesco Rosselli’s fifteen engravings of The Life of the Virgin and Christ. Purchasers determined the order and format of display, choosing how to arrange the composite image and whether to glue it to an intermediary support or directly to the wall. It is possible that these and similar prints could also have been purchased preassembled, as an inventory of Rosselli’s shop lists prints...