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Object Type: print
Museum number: E,2.192
Description: The Virgin and Child seated on a grassy bench, the Child holding a book, the Virgin crowned by two angels, with St Joseph standing behind to their left, three hares in the foreground. c.1497-8 Woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: Albrecht Dürer
School/style: German
Production date: 1497-1498
Materials: paper
Technique: woodcut
Dimensions: Height: 389 millimetres; Width: 282 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Watermark: name of Christ in sheild (similar but not identical to Meder 306) The woodblock is in the Princeton University Art Museum.
Bibliographic references: Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (212.g-h (?)); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.135.102); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.271.9); Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations (II.108)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: holy family
Associated names: Representation of: Virgin Mary; Representation of: Jesus Christ; Representation of: St Joseph
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Joseph Nollekens; Bequeathed through: Francis Douce
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,2.192

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