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Object Type
Museum number: V,8.6
Description: Adoration of the shepherds with Sts Longinus and John the Evangelist. c.1540/45 Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Monogrammist IQV; After: Giulio Romano
School/style
Production date: 1540-1545
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 415 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 293 millimetres
Curator's comments: After a lost preliminary drawing to a painting now in the Louvre, Paris (inv.421), executed by Giulio Romano for the chapel of Isabella Boschetta in Sant' Andrea, Mantua, c.1536. Also see 'Giulio Romano pinxit et delineavit', Rome 1993, cat. No.93, and 'The French Renaissance in Prints', Los Angeles 1994, cat. No.32. The Master IQV notably changes the background, replacing a distant nocturnal scene, which depicts an angel appearing in a blaze of light before a few shepherds, with two soldiers looking out towards a coastal town. Furthermore, the orientation of the background is reversed in relation to the whole composition. For further details, see Jenkins 2017.
Bibliographic references: Jenkins 2017 / Prints at the Court of Fontainebleau c1542-47 (IQV.3); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XVI.380.12)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: adoration of shepherds; christian saint/martyr
Associated names: Representation of: Holy Family; Representation of: St John the Evangelist; Representation of: St Longinus
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: V,8.6

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