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Object Type
print
Museum number
1917,1208.2451
Title
Object:
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Series:
Houghton Gallery
Description
The Virgin on the left, holding open the blanket covering the infant Jesus, the shepherds, one a woman, standing and kneeling each behind the other, adoring Him, St Joseph standing in the background; after Murillo. 1775 Mezzotint
Producer name
Print made by:
Valentine Green
Intermediary draughtsman:
George Farington
After:
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Published by:
John Boydell
School/style
British
Production date
1775
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
Dimensions
Height:
505 millimetres
Width:
355 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
For a comment on the Houghton Gallery, see 2005,U.109
Bibliographic references
Whitman 1902 / British Mezzotinters: Valentine Green
(191.II)
Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century
(undescribed)
Rubinstein 1991 / Richard Earlom (1743-1822) and Boydell's Houghton Gallery
(I.24)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
nativity
Associated names
Representation of:
Holy Family
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall
In Memory of:
Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall
Acquisition date
1917
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1917,1208.2451