print
- Museum number
- 1972,U.6.2
- Title
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Object: Genealogiae Designatio
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Series: Vita S. Ioseph B.mae Virginis Sponsi Patriarcharum Maximi
- Description
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Tree of Jesse [Isaiah 11:1]; Jesse lying in the foreground, from behind him grows a genealogical tree illustrating the descent of Christ, Christ holding a crucifix at top, flanked by the Virgin and St Joseph
Engraving and etching
- Production date
- 1600-1633 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 88 millimetres
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Width: 54 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one from a series of twenty-eight unnumbered scenes relating to the life of St Joseph, for comment see 1972,U.6.1.
For another impression see also 1896,0203.3.2.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- Stamped in black ink, in octagon: 'MVSEVM / BRITAN / NICVM' (L.296). Transferred from the British Library; inscribed in graphite on a flyleaf: "c-72 / 7".
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1972,U.6.2
