print
- Museum number
- 1860,0414.474
- Title
- Series: The Life of the Virgin
- Description
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Modern impression of the Presentation of Christ in the temple, with the infant Christ held by Simeon behind the altar on the right; a woman kneeling in front of the altar, offering a dove in a cage as sacrifice, behind her standing the Virgin and St Joseph
Engraving
- Production date
- 19thC (original plate 1505-15)
- Dimensions
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Height: 290 millimetres
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Width: 205 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After a series of 20 woodcuts on the Life of the Virgin by Albrecht Dürer. For impressions by Dürer on same subject see E.2.175; 1895,0122.633 and for an impression with latin text on verso see 1895,0122.653.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1860
- Acquisition notes
- 1860,0414.464 to 480 were all given by John Philp, and were entered as modern impressions from the plates of Marcantonio's copies of Dürer's 'Life of the Virgin'.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1860,0414.474