print
- Museum number
- 1895,0122.1187
- Description
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Virgin enthroned suckling the Infant Christ, with roundels of the Annunciation above and flanked by St Catherine and Lucy on the left and St John the Baptist and Antony Abbot on the right. c.1440-80
Woodcut with stencil colouring
- Production date
- 1440-1480 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 536 millimetres
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Width: 412 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- One of the very few surviving XVc Italian woodcuts. It was lifted off the door of a house in Bassano, and is in fragmentary and poor condition. See C. Dodgson, 'Woodcuts of the XV Century in the Department of Prints and Drawings British Museum, vol. I, 1934, no. 150; and A.M.Hind, 'An introduction to a history of woodcut', 1935, I p.162, who reproduces another similar Madonna in the V&A (Schreiber 1058n) which is still on its original panel.
For further information and bibliography see the entry by Laura Aldovini on the online catalogue 'Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento', ALU.0034. For the V&A print see ALU.0035.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2017 7 Mar-4 Jun, Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Madonnas & Miracles
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0122.1187