print
- Museum number
- Sheepshanks.7429
- Description
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St Joseph holding the hand of the Christ child at moonlight; after Adam Elsheimer
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1660-1675
- Dimensions
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Height: 135 millimetres
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Width: 95 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After the painting at Petworth House. For other impressions see also S.7428 and 1838,0420.100. For copies see S.7431-7432.
Lit.: K. Andrews, 'Adam Elsheimer:Paintings-Drawings-Prints', London, 1977, no.17H.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Acquisition notes
- For the history of the acquisition of the Sheepshanks collection, please see Sheepshanks.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Sheepshanks.7429
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: S.7429