book of prints;
print
- Museum number
- 1857,0613.188-205
- Description
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A book of 18 lithographic copies after details from an early Flemish painting. Bound in red at the BM bindery.
Lithographs, with beige tone blocks
- Production date
- 1857 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 122 millimetres
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Width: 180 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
- Curator's comments
- The painting is close to the style of Hans Memling. The scenes and figures represented are as follows:
- The Evangelists St. Matthew and St. Mark
- Saint Luke within an Annunication scene, the Virgin under a tent
- Man with oxen and St. Paul the Hermit
- St. Antony the Hermit seated reading near his chapel
- St. Jerome and st. Paulina
- Young woman fighting a dragon
- Woman riding a griffin with hermit at left
- Eagle and swan
- Christ between apostles SS. Peter and Andrew
- Coronation of the Virgin
- Group of six figures, three young women one of whom holds a flower in her left hand
- Heads of young man and woman, with partial profile of a second man at right
- Group of four male heads
- Group of five heads including head of a young child at left
- Susannah and the Elders
- Four heads, including three old men and a young woman
- Another group of four heads, with semi-clad woman
- Group of eight heads, some rendered in a grotesque manner, including a man of African descent in profile
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1857
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1857,0613.188-205
