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Object Type: print
Museum number: V,8.171
Description: The Calling of St Andrew, after Barocci, with Christ standing in the foreground shore and addressing Andrew, who kneels before him; beyond, St Peter climbing out of a boat; the sea in the distance. 1594 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Aegidius Sadeler II; After: Federico Barocci
School/style: Italian; Flemish
Production date: 1594
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 532 millimetres; Width: 378 millimetres
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Curator's comments: After a composition known through a painting originally executed for the oratorio della Confraternità di San Andrea in Pesaro and now in the Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and a replica which is in the Escorial. See Olsen, 1962, cat. No.35; and Emiliani, 1985, I, pp.188-197.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (40)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: calling of apostles
Associated names: Representation of: Jesus Christ; Representation of: St Andrew; Representation of: St Peter
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (monogram with date 1788)
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Jonathan Blackburne; Previous owner/ex-collection: Francis Jacob Grose
Acquisition date: 1799
Acquisition notes: Inscribed by Blackburne on verso: 'Grose's sale - 1770 / No.15-1' (referring to Francis Grose's sale)
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: V,8.171

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