print
- Museum number
- 1908,0616.70
- Title
- Series: Christ, The Apostles and St Paul
- Description
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Jesus Christ, half-length, with right hand raised in blessing and resting his left hand on a globe surmounted by a cross; first state before address of Visscher; circular plate; after Jacob de Gheyn II. c.1596
Engraving
- Production date
- 1596 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 153 millimetres
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Width: 150 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the first of a series of fourteen circular plates by Zacharias Dolendo after Jacob de Gheyn II showing Christ, the Apostles and St Paul; first published by Jacob de Gheyn II in Leiden (later published by Claes Jansz Visscher in Amsterdam). All plates but the first and last are numbered 1-12. For the other plates of this series see also 1908,0616.71-83.
This plate was apparently copied for the ceiling decoration from the supposed Guise Palace, Edinburgh; see Michael Bath, 'Was there a Guise Palace in Edinburgh?', in Robert Gowing and Robyn Pender (eds), 'All Manner of Murals: The History, Techniques and Conservation of Secular Wall Paintings', London, 2007, pp.11-21, fig.3. The house was demolished in 1845 but the panel survives in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1908
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1908,0616.70
