print
- Museum number
- 1874,0808.214
- Description
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Seated Cumaean sibyl, turned to right, in dress revealing her right shoulder, and holding book in left hand
Woodcut, printed from two blocks, on blue paper
- Production date
- 1624-1625 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 270 millimetres (sheet; probably cut)
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Width: 184 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- A cut-down impression from a large series of over 100 woodcuts of Biblical subjects, saints, sibyls and the apostles made by Jacques Stella (the so-called 'camayeux bleus' as many of them printed on blue paper like the present one) when he was in Rome in the 1620s.
For more information see:
http://www.dhistoire-et-dart.com/Stella/Stella-cat-Camayeu.html
For a list of the ten BM impressions from this group see 1856,1213.73
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1874
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1874,0808.214
