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Object Type
Museum number: 1856,0712.1070
Description: St John the Baptist, standing in a landscape, with a banderol around his head: 'EGO VOX CLAMANTIS IN DESERTO PARATE VIAM DNI'. Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Girolamo Mocetto; After: Giulio Campagnola; After: Andrea Mantegna
School/style
Production date: 1505-1530
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 329 millimetres; Width: 216 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The figure is taken from the engraving by Giulio Campagnola (Hind 12). This print was issued as a black and white facsimile by the British Museum in 'Reproductions of Prints in the British Museum', New [Second] Series Part I (Early Italian Prints), Published by the Trustees in 1886, where it was number XV and described there as 'Hieronimo Mocetto. St. John the Baptist.'; (Shelfmark 245*.b.15).
Bibliographic references: Hind 1938-48 / Early Italian Engraving, a critical catalogue (9); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XIII.219.5)
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Henry Munn; Purchased through: Sotheby's (14.vii.1856/383); Purchased through: Walter Benjamin Tiffin
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1856,0712.1070

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