print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1837,0408.212.A
- Title
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Object: The National Gallery of Pictures by the Great Masters
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Object: The Holy Family
- Description
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Plate 86: the Virgin Mary sitting on the ground, leaning on a tree, the semi-clothed Child in her lap, looking to the side; a basket with sewing implements in the bottom left corner; behind them Joseph working, against a background of ruins and architectural elements; after Correggio's Madonna della Cesta. 1832
Etching and engraving, with stipple
- Production date
- 1832
- Dimensions
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Height: 247 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 216 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After a painting by Correggio called the Madonna of the Basket (Madonna della Cesta), recorded in Spain in 1666 and then England in 1813; now in the National Gallery, London, inv.no.NG23. See Gould, 1976, p.219.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1837
- Acquisition notes
- From Richard Ford's collection of prints after Correggio (1837,0408.14 to 669), purchased from him through Colnaghi's, for £250.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1837,0408.212.A