drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 2011,7071.5
- Description
-
Christ's return from the desert and entry into Jerusalem; Christ rides on a donkey flanked by two other figures on donkeys, an angel above and four children in front; preparatory drawing for the 'Picture Bible'
Pen and black and brown ink
- Production date
- 1840-1850 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 225 millimetres
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Width: 262 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Preliminary study for fol. ### in part ### of the 'Picture Bible' published in thirty parts with 240 woodcuts between 1852 and 1860 by Georg Wigand in Leipzig.
Two further studies by Schnorr von Carolsfeld for his `Picture Bible` in the Booth-Clibborn collection, one for the first edition, the other for the second, were exhibited at the British Museum in 2011-12; see H. Sieveking in G. Bartrum (ed.), 'German Romantic prints and drawings from an English private collection', London, 2011, pp.302-5, nos.90-1. For an account of Schnorr's 'Picture Bible', see C. Grewe, 'The Bible in Pictures: history lessons and popular culture' in 'Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism', Farnham and Burlington VT, 2011, pp. 203-251.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2011
- 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.
Acquired by Charles Booth-Clibborn from Heinz Böhm-Hennes
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2011,7071.5
