print
- Museum number
- 1861,1109.683
- Description
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An angel, half-length; pasted onto the recto of a sheet (145 by 105 mm) of a prayer book, with extensive devotional Flemish manuscript calligraphy in brown and red ink
Engraving
- Production date
- 1500-1525
- Dimensions
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Height: 15 millimetres
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Width: 10 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Kathryn Rudy has identified 1861,1109.632 - 693 as belonging toa book of hours in the BL (Add Mss 24332) written by a scribe (probably Jan van Emmerick) at a monastery of Franciscan beghards dedicated to St Matthew and St Bartholomew in Maastricht, shortly before 1500. See K. Rudy, Image, Knife and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019): p. 119, e-fig. 63.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,1109.683