print
- Museum number
- E,1.93
- Description
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Judith; the heroine is seen in the right foreground, giving the head to her servant; the beheaded Holofernes lies in the tent behind; in the left foreground are several canons, depicted behind is the tumult of the battle; third state
Engraving
- Production date
- 1485-1495 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 216 millimetres (borderlines)
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Height: 132 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 178 millimetres
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Width: 316 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print was issued as a black and white facsimile by the British Museum in 'Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Reproduced by Photographic Process', [First Series] Part III (German Prints), Published by the Trustees in 1884, where it was number XXXII (A) (reproduced alongside E,1.107) and described there as 'Israhel von Meckenem. About 1480 - 1503.'; (Shelfmark 245*.b.14).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1810 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- There is no indication of provenance on the mount. It is listed by Strutt, which might point to a Monro provenance.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- E,1.93