The Nativity, in Coffer

The Nativity, in Coffer

c. 1490 · France

Woodcut in black, hand colored with brush, stencil and watercolor on ivory laid paper mounted on the inside cover of a coffer, constructed of wood, iron, leather, horsehair and linen

And she brought foorth her first borne sonne, and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no roome for them in the Inne.
LUKE 2:7 · KJV 1611 · READ THE CHAPTER

Art Institute of Chicago · Medieval (500–1500) · CC0 · George F. Harding Deaccessions Fund; purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. William Vance; The Amanda S. Johnson…

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