drawing
- Museum number
- 1973,0120.9
- Description
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Saint Mary Magdalene in the desert; half-length, semi-nude standing before a slab of rock on which are a skull and small cross
Pen and grey and brown ink and wash
- Production date
- 1760-1790 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 204 millimetres
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Width: 150 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Literature
M.P. McDonald, 'Renaissance to Goya: Prints and drawings from Spain', exh. cat., British Museum, London 2012, fig.54, p.228.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1976 BM, Spanish Drawings (no cat)
2012/13 Sept-Jan, London, British Museum, ‘Renaissance to Goya: Prints and Drawings from Spain’
2013, Aug-Nov, Sydney, AGNSW, 'Renaissance to Goya'
2013-4, Dec-Mar, Santa Fe, New Mexico Museum of Modern Art, 'Renaissance to Goya'
- Acquisition date
- 1973
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1973,0120.9
