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Object Type: print
Museum number: W,9.118
Description: The annunciation to the shepherds. Landscape with an angel on a cloud in top centre, several shepherds with their animals below, one leaning against a tree at right, another playing the flute in lower right, a woman milking a cow at left; after Jacopo Bassano Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Aegidius Sadeler II; After: Jacopo Bassano
School/style: Flemish
Production date: 1593-1595
Production place: Published in: Verona (city)
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 270 millimetres; Width: 206 millimetres
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Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (31)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: angels appearing to shepherds
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Sir Hans Sloane (with Philipe's oval stamp and the initials HS)
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: William Courten (a long inscription in his hand on the recto)
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: W,9.118

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