print
- Museum number
- 1951,0407.67
- Description
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The entombment with two men holding the body of Christ in a shroud, about to lift it into a tomb; after Pordenone. c.1656
Engraving
- Production date
- 1656
- Dimensions
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Height: 160 millimetres
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Width: 179 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a series of five engravings after the destroyed or detached frescoes by Pordenone in the cloister of S.Stefano, Venice of 1532/3. See for the series Charles E.Cohen, 'The art of GAP' 2 vols Cambrdige 1996, cat.67. One of the prints (a 'Noli me tangere') is lacking in the BM.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1951
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1951,0407.67