print
- Museum number
- 1939,0130.1.69
- Title
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Series: Royal-Size Bible
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Series: Historiae Sacrae Veteris et Novi Testamenti
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Series: Biblische figuren, Darinnen die fürnembste historien, in heiliger Schrifft begriffen, geschichtmässig entworffen
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Series: Figures de la Bible, demonstrans les principales histoires de la Saincte Escriture
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Series: Bybelsche figuren, vertonende de voornaemste historien der Heylige Schrifture
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Series: Figures of the Bible, in wich almost every history of the Holy Scriptures is discribed
- Description
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The Visitation; the Virgin approaching St Elizabeth at left, Zacharias greeting Joseph at right, and a servant carrying a basket walking upstairs; after Peter Paul Rubens; from a series of 130 engravings (plus title-page) forming a Picture Bible
Engraving
- Production date
- 1652 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 409 millimetres
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Width: 514 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment on the volume see 1939,0130.1.1. After Rubens' oil sketch of 'The Visitation', Prague, Národní Galerie (Corpus Rubenianum VI, fig.147). See also the left side panel of Rubens' triptych 'The Descent from the Cross' in the Cathedral of Antwerp (Rooses 308). For the engraving by Pieter de Jode II after Rubens, see 1917,1208.530 and R,3.36.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Acquisition notes
- The ex-libris of Charles Bruce (dated 1712) is pasted on the verso of the title-page (1939,0130.1.1)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1939,0130.1.69
