print
- Museum number
- 1837,0408.527
- Title
- Series: Set of prints based on designs by Correggio
- Description
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Assumption of the Virgin; sketch-like representation of theVirgin Mary, halo roughly stylized, looking upwards with arms stretched out, supported and surrounded by a number of putti, some only vaguely outlined; a sketched hand visible in the top right corner; the outline of a face in the bottom left corner
Etching
- Production date
- 1690-1740
- Dimensions
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Height: 265 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 183 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- A set of prints made by Francesco Faraone Aquila (q.v.) purportedly reproducing different stages of development of Correggio's designs for the frescoes in the dome of the Duomo in Parma. For more details see Mussini, 'Correggio Tradotto', 1995, pp. 180-181 and car. 1837,0408.526
- 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
- 1837,0408.527