print
- Museum number
- 1874,0808.187
- Description
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The young St John the Baptist seated in the desert, holding a staff in his left hand, right raised, after Raphael
Chiaroscuro woodcut in line block only on brown treated paper with gold highlights touched in by hand
- Production date
- 1560-1570 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 382 millimetres
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Width: 273 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print was attributed by Bartsch to Ugo da Carpi, and this has remained current until recently when a new and more convincing attribution was proposed to Boldrini: see Naoko Takahatake, 'The chiaroscuro woodcut in Renaissance Italy', Los Angeles 2018, p.209. The composition uses a Raphael composition set into a new landscape created by Boldrini himself.
For two other chiaroscuro impressions, see 1868,0612.13 1860,0414.102.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1874
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1874,0808.187
