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Object Type
print
Museum number
F,1.259
Description
Lamentation. Christ's body is laid down and tended by the three women, several other women are distraught, the empty cross stands out against the sky with a ladder against it in background, the entrance to a tomb at right. c.1550 Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Pieter van der Heyden
Published by:
Hieronymus Cock
School/style
Flemish
Production date
1550
(c.)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
353 millimetres
(trimmed)
Width:
367 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This is an impression after an unidentified Italian Master (Hollstein). For other impressions see 1950,0520.424 and 1981,1212.9.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(12)
Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher
(241)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
lamentation
Associated names
Representation of:
Jesus Christ
Representation of:
Virgin Mary
Representation of:
St Mary Magdalene
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Sir Hans Sloane
(with the Sloane stamp applied in the 1870s; backed recently)
Acquisition date
1753
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
F,1.259