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Object Type
print
Museum number
1856,0815.62
Title
Series:
Famous women of the new testament
Description
Plate 4: Woman of Cana, half-length to right, with her hand on her chest and imploring; two small lap dogs at right; after Hendrick Goltzius Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Jan Saenredam
After:
Hendrik Goltzius
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1595
(circa)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
190 millimetres
Width:
135 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This is one of a set of six, for comment see D,5.222.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(38)
(Saenredam)
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700
(430.I)
(Hendrick Goltzius; Prints after inventions by Goltzius)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(III.237.48)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
new testament
Associated names
Associated with:
Cornelis Schonaeus
(author of Latin verses)
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Lady Juliana St Aubyn
Purchased through:
Winstanley's
(sale 6-12.viii.1856/583)
Purchased through:
Holloway (& Son)
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Sir John St Aubyn
Acquisition date
1856
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1856,0815.62