# The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, Netherlandish]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Engraving, 139 x 94 mm ## Commentary In the beginning of the sixteenth century, the open art market in the Netherlands gave rise to the mass production of devotional art for broad sectors of the public: pipe-clay images of saints made in moulds, lead pilgrim's badges, and woodcuts and engravings printed on paper. Very few examples of the prints have survived, since they are so easily damaged. They would, though, have been produced in large editions, for it is estimated that between two and three hundred impression could be made from a wooden block, and far more from copperplates. For instance, from this engraving of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin some 2650 prints were printed between 1506 and 1514. ## Related artworks - [A Bathhouse]() - [A Cistercian Abbot]() - [Bellows with the Fight into Egypt]() - [Caesar Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl]() - [Calvary of Hendrik van Rijn]() - [Canticum Canticorum]() - [Combat between the Actor and the Age]() - [Commemorative Medal]() - [Eighteen Scenes from the Life of Christ]() - [Emblem]() - [Four Canons with Sts Augustine and Jerome, with the Visitation]() - [Interior of a Gothic Church]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()