print
- Museum number
- E,2.17.+
- Description
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The Virgin and Child at the gate, in the manner of Dürer; the Virgin and Child are seated on a cushion on a grassy bench next to an open gate, in the background a fortified town, in the sky God blessing and the dove.
Engraving
- Production date
- 1520-1540 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 166 millimetres
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Width: 118 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bartsch described this print as after a painting or drawing by Dürer, but not engraved by him (vol.VII, p.63). In fact, the composition has been compiled from different motifs in Dürer's prints. The fortified town in the background derives from Dürer's Life of the Virgin, 'Christ taking leave from his mother' (Meder 204), the detail of God and the Holy Spirit perhaps from the same series, 'Rest on the Flight into Egypt' (Meder 202), the Virgin and Child may be inspired by Meder 31. The shape of the tablet with Dürer's monogram and the date 1520 is copied from Dürer's engravings of that date, but it is propped awkwardly on the grass verge.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1834
- Acquisition notes
- Bequeathed by Joseph Nollekens, subject to a life interest to Francis Douce, 1834.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- E,2.17.+
