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Object Type
Museum number: 1946,0713.1162
Description: Adoration of the Magi (r-hand half only), after Holbein the Elder; with two figures holding chalices, and another group of figures and architecture beyond Pen and grey ink, with grey wash
Producer name: After: Hans Holbein the Elder; Formerly attributed to: Michel Wolgemut
School/style
Production date: 1475-1524
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 379 millimetres; Width: 261 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This is a weak copy, probably based on a tracing, of the right-hand half of the drawing 'The Adoration of the Magi' by Hans Holbein the Elder in the Kunstmuseum Basel (U.11, 1662.217; Falk, 'Basel', p. 79, no. 164, repr.). The copyist has added the wash quite differently from the original.
Bibliographic references: Rowlands 1993 / Drawings by German artists and artists from German-speaking regions of Europe in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: the 15thC & 16thC by Artists born before 1530 (App.III, 8); Phillipps-Fenwick 1935 / Catalogue of drawings in the collection of T Fitzroy Phillipps-Fenwick (p.231(1))
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Dr Edward Peart (L.891); Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445); Previous owner/ex-collection: Samuel Woodburn (Christie's, 5.vi.1860/373 as 'Early German - Solomon's Idolatry; the rape of Europe; a servant receiving a chalice from his master &c.', 4 in the lot, bt by Thorpe £0-19-0); Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Phillipps; Previous owner/ex-collection: Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick
Acquisition date: 1946
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1946,0713.1162

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