print
- Museum number
- 1873,0712.87
- Title
- Series: Christ and the apostles
- Description
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Plate 4: St Simon. The saint, whole-length, reading and concentrating on a book while resting his elbow on a block (decorated with a two handled saw heraldic device), before an arched niche; second state with extended signature. 1545
Engraving
- Production date
- 1545
- Dimensions
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Height: 195 millimetres
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Width: 90 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one of a series of fourteen, for comment see 1873,0712.80. For another impression see 1982,U.3270.
This print was issued as a black and white facsimile by the British Museum in 'Reproductions of Prints in the British Museum', New Series Part VI (Specimens of Line-engraving by Masters of Germany and the Low Countries (1530-1620)), Published by the Trustees in 1897, where it was number V(B) and described there as 'Lambert Suavius. St. Simon.'; see 1897,08.13.20.6 (Shelfmark 245*.b.20).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1873,0712.87