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Object Type: print
Museum number: W,4.63
Title: Series: The Apostles
Description: St Thomas standing facing right, after Parmigianino. 1540s Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in green
Producer name: Attributed to: Antonio da Trento; After: Parmigianino; Published by: Niccolò Vicentino
School/style: Italian
Production date: 1540-1549 (circa)
Materials: paper
Technique: woodcut
Dimensions: Height: 123 millimetres; Width: 75 millimetres
Curator's comments: For comment on series see 1895,0122.1280. Naoko Takahatake considers this impression to have been printed in the Vicentino workshop in the 1540s. It is the only impression of this woodcut in the BM. For further information and bibliography see the entry by Linda Stiber Morenus and Naoko Takahatake on the online catalogue 'Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento', ALU.0971.1.
Bibliographic references: Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XII.70.8); Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento (ALU.0971.1)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: christian saint/martyr
Associated names: Representation of: St Thomas
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (with Philipe's oval blindstamp with the initials CMC)
Acquisition date: 1799
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: W,4.63

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