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Tapestries

Tapestries

    AUGUSTIN HIRSCHVOGEL (1503-53)

    The Massacre of the Innocents

    dated 1545

    Etching | 28.4 x 18.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853229

    One from a three-plate etching based on the 'The Massacre of the Innocents', a three-panel tapestry from a twelve-piece set depicting scenes from the Life of Christ traditionally known as ‘Scuola Nuova’ (eleven of which survive today in the Vatican Museums). Dated and signed with etcher's monogram (see Nagler, III, no.616) at lower right on a stone. Lettered at upper right: MATHEI. II.C. On watermarked paper, annotated in pencil on the back. Not in Ruland (1876).

    For a complete three-plate etching and further information about the 'Scuola Nuova' set of tapestries, see RCIN 853228.

    • Creator(s)

      Augustin Hirschvogel (1503-53) (etcher)

      After Giulio Romano (Rome c. 1499-Mantua 1546) (designer)

    • annotation: A. Hirschvogel / B. IX. 171. no.2 [back, lower centre, in pencil]

      annotation: Pf 33 B I. 8 a (dupl) [back, along lower edge, in pencil]

      annotation: Aug. Hirschvog [back, lower right corner, in pencil]

      annotation: [barely legible] [back, lower right, in pencil]

    • 28.4 x 18.2 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)

    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Bible & Holy Scripture
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • prints
    • Other number(s)

      Ruland p.255 C.I.8a(add)

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