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Title

Virgin and Child with St. John

Artist

Raphael Sadeler I

Physical Description

This small black and white engraving depicts a half-length portrait of a woman seated and cloaked in drapery who is attending to and two young boys. The woman supports the boy who looks out toward the viewer while both boys reach toward a plate of fruit resting on the woman’s arm in the center of the composition. The figures are arranged against a black backdrop with a raised curtain framing them at the top and at the upper left.

Artist Life Dates

1560 or 1561 - circa 1628 or 1632

Object Creation Date

n.d.

Accession Number

2012/2.208

Medium and Support

engraving on medium laid paper

relevance

rank 12.60773

Primary Keywords

christ child

christianity

virgins

Title

Adoration of the Shepherds

Artist

Nicolaus van Aelst

Physical Description

This black and white print depicts a scene with groups of figures separated compositionally by a large wooden post that is placed in the foreground of the composition, just left of center. Four male figures on the left look toward the scene on the right where a woman kneels in prayer before a child accompanied by two angels and a haloed man feeding hay to a donkey.

Artist Life Dates

1526-1613

Object Creation Date

circa 1604-1606

Accession Number

2012/2.185

Medium and Support

engraving and etching on off-white medium laid paper

relevance

rank 12.47062

Primary Keywords

jesus christ

prayers

shepherds

virgins

Title

Seated Virgin

Artist

Heinrich Aldegrever

Artist Life Dates

1502- circa 1561

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1553

Accession Number

1952/1.88

Medium and Support

engraving on paper

relevance

rank 11.82752

Primary Keywords

christ child

christianity

flowers

mary

pots

seated

sitting

virgin

virgins