drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5218.188
- Description
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The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin, after Dürer; Christ crowning the Virgin above, an angel either side of them, below the apostles are gathered around the empty tomb gazing up at the scene above them, shield-shaped
Pen and brown ink, with watercolour
- Production date
- 1503-1520 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 389 millimetres
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Width: 319 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- A copy of Dürer's drawing of the same composition, see 1910,0611.6
Lit from J.Rowlands 'Drawings by German Artists and Artists from German-speaking regions of Europe in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum: the Fifteenth Century, and the Sixteenth Century by Artists born before 1530', London, BM Press, 1993, no. 273: BM Guide, 1928, p. 31; Winkler, Dürer, ii, pp. 59f., under no. 337; Pfaff, Studien, pp. 96, 98ff, app., pp. vi f. no. 11d; Strauss, ii, p. 700, under no. 1503/24.
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1928 BM London, Guide Woodcuts, Drawings of A. Dürer, p.31
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5218.188
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: C,07.188
