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Object Type: print
Museum number: F,3.135
Description: Pietà. Mary with Christ's dead body on her lap and weeping, the empty cross with a ladder propped against it in background at right; after the engraving by Hendrik Goltzius Engraving
Producer name: After: Hendrik Goltzius; Manner/Style of: Albrecht Dürer
School/style: Dutch
Production date: 1596 (after)
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 186 millimetres; Width: 127 millimetres
Curator's comments: This is a copy in same direction of Hendrik Goltzius' Pieta (Hollstein 50). For other copies in BM see 1973,U.272-275 and 2006,U.636. For the original plates by Goltzius in BM collection see 1845,0809.616 and 1868,0822.609.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (31) (Hendrick Goltzius; copy a (first state)); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (50) (copy)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: pieta
Associated names: Representation of: Virgin Mary; Representation of: Jesus Christ
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Sir Hans Sloane (with the Sloane stamp of the 1870s)
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: F,3.135
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1973,U.276

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