drawing
- Museum number
- T,14.29
- Description
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The Virgin and Child appearing to St George, design for a stained glass window in three panels; the armorial devices of Philip the Good and Charles the Bold of Burgundy in the corners, St George kneeling, with his horse, at left receiving his lance from the Virgin, who is standing at centre with the Christ Child, two angels with a cross at r, a canopy above, within an oval
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 15thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 310 millimetres
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Width: 200 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Netherlandish XVc.
The inscription explains that George was shown the cross to inspire his defeat of the dragon and that the Virgin gave him his shield, marked with the cross, and lance to help him in this quest (see Popham, no. 6). Donald Brine discusses this drawing in relationto Van Eyck's Van der Paele Madonna, which predates this drawing, and discusses broader notions of St George in the fifteenth-century Burgundian Netherlands. See 'Reflection and Rememberance in Jan van Eyck's Van der Paele Virgin' Art History 41:4 (2018): fig. 12.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1973, BM, Netherlandish prints and drawings (no cat.)
- Acquisition date
- 1769
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- T,14.29
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: FAWK,5213.29