- Museum number
- 1952,0121.85
- Description
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Presentation in the Temple; to left stand the Virgin, Joseph and the High Priest holding the Infant Christ, to right a woman kneels holding a caged dove, with further figures to right and beyond, in the foreground a boy, lion and ball
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, on green-grey prepared paper
- Production date
- 1526-1544
- Dimensions
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Height: 238 millimetres
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Width: 238 millimetres (circular)
- Curator's comments
- Not in Popham. See also a similar design BM 1923,0417.4. A glass roundel at Holy Trinity, Berwick-on-Tweed, follows the present drawing closely (the connection first noticed by John Rowlands, letter of 3 Aug. 1981 in file).
Literature: E. Konowitz, 'Drawings as intermediary stages: some working methods of Dirk Vellert and Albrecht Dürer re-examined', Simiolus (Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art), 20, (1990/1991), pp.147, repr. fig.5; W. Cole, 'Roundels in Britain', 1993, no.146.
Label text (2003): The artist was a leading stained-glass designer in Antwerp from around 1510. This highly finished design was probably used as a model in the artist's studio stock to show prospective clients. It was reproduced, with some alterations, in a second drawing now also in the British Museum [1923,0417.4], in order to make a glass roundel of a type that was common in the Netherlands in the early sixteenth century. A version in glass, entirely faithful in design to the exhibited drawing, survives in Holy Trinity Church, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
The drawing is one of ninety formerly in an album once owned by James Cavendish, the second son of the 2nd Duke of Devonshire (1673-1729), who may have supplied its contents. The latter's collection of drawings remains largely intact with his descendants at Chatsworth.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1973, BM, Netherlandish prints and drawings (no cat.)
1984, BM, Master Drawings & Watercolours, no. 78
1995 June-July, New York, Met Mus of Art, 'Painted Glass Roundel', no. 74
2003/4 Dec-April, BM, NACF exhibition
2010/11 Oct-Jan, New York, Met Mus of Art, Jan Gossaert's Renaissance (shown at Met only)
- Acquisition date
- 1952
- Acquisition notes
- One of ninety drawings from the Cavendish album; see 1952,0121.75 for a full account of provenance.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1952,0121.85