print
- Museum number
- 1860,0211.349
- Title
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Object: Holy Family
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Series: Stafford Gallery
- Description
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The holy family; the Virgin Mary sitting on the ground, leaning on a tree, the semi-clothed Child in her lap, looking to the side; a basket with sewing implements in the bottom left corner; behind them Joseph working, against a background of ruins and architectural elements; after Correggio's Madonna della Cesta; image cut from the Stafford Gallery, no. 3.
Etching and engraving on chine collé
- Production date
- 1810-1818
- Dimensions
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Height: 60 millimetres (image)
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Width: 47 millimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The painting is called the Madonna of the Basket (Madonna della Cesta), recorded in Spain in 1666 and then England in 1813; now in the National Gallery, London [cat. NG23]. See Gould, 1976, p. 219
From 'Engravings of the Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford's Collection...', see 1860,0211.552 for comment.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1860
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1860,0211.349
