drawing
- Museum number
- 1943,1113.41
- Description
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The Presentation in the Temple; the Virgin, Joseph and Christ Child surrounded by figures between ornate twisted columns, three lamps and a garland above
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, heightened with white (partly discoloured), over black chalk, on light brown paper
- Production date
- 17thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 304 millimetres
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Width: 221 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- According to an inscription on the mount bought at the 1842 Strawberry Hill sale as Albano.
Lit.: N. Turner, 'Italian Drawings in the BM, Roman Baroque Drawings', London, 1999, I, no. 437
Turner 1999
The composition and to some extent the style show similarities to the work of Pietro de' Pietri.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1943
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1943,1113.41