print;
prayer-book
- Museum number
- 1897,0103.6
- Description
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Christ shown to the people; Christ stands on top of the steps to the left, surrounded by several figures, and shown to the group standing below to the right; in the right background, Pilate and his wife are portrayed; in the lower left foreground sits a monkey on a chain; first state; pasted onto a vellum leaf in a MS, with gilt border. c.1480
Engraving
- Production date
- 1475-1485 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 214 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 154 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See comment under 1842,0806.77.
Inserted into MS Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, see first entry of the series, registered as 1897,0103.1 (PPA55377).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1987 Feb 5 - May 25, BM, 'An A-Z of P&D'
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Acquisition notes
- This is pasted onto a leaf in a manuscript of the Office of the Virgin Mary transferred from the British Library (Sloane 3981). The volume contains signatures of an earlier owner, P G F Le Gendre, sieur de Lormoy, whose collection was sold in 1746. The manuscript contains the complete series of the engravings of Israel van Meckenem's Passion series, pasted onto different pages, which are registered individually as 1897,0103.1 to 12.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1897,0103.6
