Accession number
PML 145504, plate 15
Creator
Della Bella, Stefano, 1610-1664.
Published
[Italy], [1641]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from De Vesme/Massar.
Bound in v. 6 (PML 145504) as plate 15 of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Print closely trimmed with loss of plate mark and laid down onto leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Etching signed "Stef. de la Bella fecit" at lower left; presumed 2nd state, before letters, with no evidence of retouching.
Bound in v. 6 (PML 145504) as plate 15 of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Print closely trimmed with loss of plate mark and laid down onto leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Etching signed "Stef. de la Bella fecit" at lower left; presumed 2nd state, before letters, with no evidence of retouching.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 137 x 119 mm; sheet: 150 x 121 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows St Joseph walking towards right, leading a donkey on which the Virgin is seated holding the sleeping Christ child in her arms, in a landscape with trees behind the Holy family at right.
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