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[WOOD BLOCK.] German, 19th century.

192 x 128 mm. Depicting Jonah emerging from the whale and scenes from the life of Christ, including the Resurrection. Provenance: Fred W. Allsopp (his sale Parke Bernet, 1 April 1947, lot 312).

The block appears to be a 19th-century version of a 15th-century subject.

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