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print
Object Type
print
Museum number
1868,0822.2012
Title
Object:
Salvator Mundi
Description
Christ, half-length, at a table with the eucharist, holding up bread in his left hand, looking upwards, making the sign of blessing with his right hand; after Carlo Dolci; scratched letter proof. 1769 Mezzotint with etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Richard Earlom
After:
Carlo Dolci
Published by:
John Boydell
School/style
British
Production date
1769
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
etching
Dimensions
Height:
502 millimetres
Width:
354 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
For painting see Baldassari, 1995, cat. No.152-154. Unknown collector's stamp (of geometrical/flower design?) on recto at bottom right.
Bibliographic references
Wessely 1886 / Richard Earlom, Verzeichniss seiner Radirungen und Schabkunstblätter
(74)
Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century
(undescribed)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
christ
eucharist
Associated names
Representation of:
Jesus Christ
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Felix Slade
Acquisition date
1868
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1868,0822.2012