print
- Museum number
- D,5.81
- Title
- Series: Repentant sinners from the Bible
- Description
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Manasseh; shackled: his feet are in stocks and his neck and arms are chained; he weeps and looks upwards at cherubs playing instruments sitting amongst billowing clouds; after Karel van Mander
Engraving
- Production date
- 1595 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 181 millimetres (cut)
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Width: 140 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a series of eight plates (New Hollstein 15-22; the BM has an incomplete group). A related drawing sold at Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1992, lot 159 (New Hollstein Karel van Mander, Appendix 2, no. 2). The impression is damaged at the corners and cut to the design.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- For the probable provenance from Sir Hans Sloane, see the comment on D,5.1.
There is no indication of provenance on the verso.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- D,5.81
