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Object Type: print
Museum number: D,5.172
Title: Series: The Passion
Description: Plate 1: The Last Supper; Christ is seated at a table with his apostles, He holds two pieces of bread and St John dozes at His side, a servant bears a large plate of food and is about to descend some steps at right, beyond is a view of a large fortified building; after Hendrik Goltzius Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Abraham Hogenberg; After: Hendrik Goltzius
School/style: Dutch; German
Production date: 1608-1653 (c.)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 200 millimetres; Width: 135 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This is the first from a series of twelve copies after Goltzius' Passion series, for comment see 1856,0614.56. For the set of copies see D,5.172-183.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (1-12) (Hogenberg); New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (17-28) (Hendrick Goltzius; copy b (second edition)); Hirschmann 1921 / Hendrik Goltzius, Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes (21-32) (copy)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: last supper
Associated names: Representation of: Jesus Christ; Representation of: Apostles
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Sir Hans Sloane
Acquisition date: 1753
Acquisition notes: Although this sheet was stamped as from Cracherode in 1870s, this seems to be wrong as it is part of a uniform set of copies after Goltzius (D,5.172 to 183) of which all the other prints are plausibly marked as from Hans Sloane. (AVG)
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: D,5.172

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