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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1868,0822.839
Description: The Infant Christ and the Infant John the Baptist playing with the lamb; landscape with Christ at right, St John at left and the lamb in between them, water-lilies and a frog in right foreground; after Christoffel Jegher who made a woodcut after Peter Paul Rubens Engraving
Producer name: Published by: Cornelis Galle I; After: Peter Paul Rubens; After: Christoffel Jegher (woodcut)
School/style: Flemish
Production date: 1630-1650
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 335 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 439 millimetres
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Curator's comments: After the painting by Rubens formerly in the Palazzo Balbi or Palazzo Reale, Genoa (Rooses 185). For another impression see R,4.3.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (255); Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens (85.92)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: christ child; life of baptist
Associated names: Representation of: Jesus Christ; Representation of: St John the Baptist (Prodromos)
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Felix Slade
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0822.839

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