print
- Museum number
- W,4.1
- Description
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The dream of Jacob who sleeps in the foreground, angels descend from heaven, after Penni. 1540s
Chiaroscuro woodcut with three blocks in brown and black
- Production date
- 1540-1549 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 213 millimetres
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Width: 270 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This woodcut was attributed by Bartsch to Ugo da Carpi, but has been re-attributed to Vicentino by Naoko Takahatake: see 'The chiaroscuro woodcut in Renaissance Italy', Los Angeles 2018, p.130, and dated to the 1540s. This is one of three impressions of the print in the BM, all printed in the Vicentino workshop in the 1540s. There is a related Penni drawing in the BM, 1860,0616.82, which may have been the source of this print.
For further information and bibliography see the entry by Naoko Takahatake on the online catalogue 'Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento', ALU.0990.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Acquisition notes
- The album W,4 was the first of two albums of chiaroscuro woodcuts arranged by Thomas Philipe in 1808-10 (the other being W,5). W,4 contained 127 prints, and the order is not easy to understand. Philipe seems to have gathered in this volume all the XVIc prints that he thought were Italian and in the tradition of Ugo da Carpi. W,5 contained prints that stood outside this tradition (Mantegna, Beccafumi, Coriolano), chiaroscuri by northern printmakers (Businck, Goltzius), and non-chiaroscuro woodcuts by Italians (Scolari, Boldrini).
Fourteen of the prints in the album come from Sloane, but almost all the rest come from Cracherode. The album was broken up by G W Reid in June 1876.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- W,4.1
