print
- Museum number
- 1842,0806.66
- Description
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The Presentation in the Temple; Simeon stands in front of the altar to the left, receiving the Child from the Virgin to the right; behind her stand St Joseph and other figures; the circumcision of Christ is represented in the upper right corner. c. 1490-1500
Engraving
- Production date
- 1490-1500 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 256 millimetres (borderlines)
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Height: 266 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 178 millimetres
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Width: 180 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Part of a series, The Life of the Virgin, consisting of 12 sheets, based on lost drawings by Hans Holbein the Elder.
The entire suite is extant at the BM.
According to Hernad, this is the earliest example in Germany of an engraver reproducing a painter's drawings.
B. Henrad, "Israhel van Meckenem (ii)", The Dictionary of Art, ed. J. Turner (London: Macmillan, 1996), xx, 916-7.
See A. Shestack, Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe, exh. cat. (Washington DC, 1968), no. 223.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1842
- Acquisition notes
- 1842,0806.1 to 321 were all purchased from W & G Smith, who had acquired the collection of Joseph Harding, from whom they all came. The acquisition was recommended to the Trustees by Josi on 31 March and 29 April 1841, but only purchased in 1842.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1842,0806.66