print
- Museum number
- 1837,0408.392
- Description
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Virgin, half-length, sitting in front of an arched window opening onto a landscape and holding sleeping Child in her arms; proof before letter. 1708
Engraving
- Production date
- 1708
- Dimensions
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Height: 433 millimetres (platemark)
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Width: 323 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Print after a painting erroneously attributed to Correggio.
First state of two, without dedication.
See Mussini, Correggio Tradotto, 1995, p. 247.
- 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
- 1837,0408.392
