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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1884,0726.20
Title: Series: The Christian Virtues
Description: Female personification of Prudence seated turned to the left, after Perino del Vaga. 1540s Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in green
Producer name: Print made by: Niccolò Vicentino; Formerly attributed to: Parmigianino; After: Perino del Vaga
School/style: Italian
Production date: 1540-1549 (circa)
Materials: paper
Technique: woodcut; colour
Dimensions: Height: 142 millimetres; Width: 98 millimetres
Curator's comments: For comment on the series of six so-called 'Christian Virtues' (B.XII.128.1 to 6), see 1884,0726.16. This impression is from the original edition printed in the Vicentino workshop in the 1540s. For further information and bibliography see the entry by Linda Stiber Morenus and Naoko Takahatake on the online catalogue 'Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento', ALU.1008.1.
Bibliographic references: Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XII.129.6); Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento (ALU.1008.1)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: virtues and vices
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Sir Andrew Fountaine; Purchased through: Christie's (sale 7/10 July 1884/354); Purchased through: Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau
Acquisition date: 1884
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1884,0726.20

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