print
- Museum number
- 1860,0414.117
- Description
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Allegory of Surprise, a man standing with his arms open, after Parmigianino. 1540s
Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in pink
- Production date
- 1540-1550
- Dimensions
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Height: 262 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 175 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Attributed by Bartsch tentatively to Ugo da Carpi. Re-attributed to Vicentino by Naoko Takahatake, 'The chiaroscuro woodcut in Renaissance Italy', Los Angeles 2018, cat.47, and dated to the 1540s. This impression was printed in the Vicentino workshop.
After a drawing by Parmigianino in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (Inv. No. 6433). (A. E. Popham, Catalogue of Drawings by Parmigianino, 1971, vol. I, p. 145, no. 411)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1860
- Acquisition notes
- The 255 woodcuts came from a group of 500 that was offered by Colnaghi for £500 (see Carpenter's report dated 21 March 1860). According to the register these came from the collection of William Russell. Carpenter proposed making a selection of those that the BM lacked; this was first declined by Colnaghi's, but was later accepted (see his later report dated 11 April). The final selection of 255 prints cost 300 guineas. Nos.312 to 327 were Japanese colour prints - almost the earliest to enter the BM collection.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1860,0414.117