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Object Type
Museum number: W,4.7
Description: Massacre of the innocents; set against classical ruins, in the centre a mother sits mourning her child, directly above her another pulls the hair of a soldier who has a knife in his right hand. 1544 Chiaroscuro woodcut in three blocks in brown
Producer name: Print made by: Master ND; After: Raphael (and / or his school)
School/style
Production date: 1544
Production place: Published in: Fontainebleau
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 286 millimetres; Width: 512 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Variant II of the print. See W,4.6 for further comment on the composition. For further information and bibliography see the entry by L. Battagliotti on the online catalogue 'Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento', ALU.1103.1.
Bibliographic references: Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XII.33.7); Karpinsky 1976 / Le Maître ND de Bologne (1); Jenkins 2017 / Prints at the Court of Fontainebleau c1542-47 (ND.1); Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento (ALU.1103.1)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2018, March-May, BM, G90a, 'Fontainebleau School'
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1799
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: W,4.7
Conservation

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