The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist
The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist
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- Description
- Engraving after painting by Nicolas Poussin once in the Embroidered Bed Chamber at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2. Marsh probably wrote the numeral 18 in pencil in the lower right margin. Pencil note on mounting sheet indicates the print was taken out for framing Mar. 17, 1894. Signed in the plate lower right: N. Poussin Pinxit De Pouilly Sculpsit Ex C P R.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- engraving
- Object Type
- Engraving
- Other Terms
- Print; Intaglio; Engraving
- date made
- 1779
- original artist
- Poussin, Nicolas
- engraver
- Poilly, Francois de
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Physical Description
- ink (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 46.5 cm x 34.75 cm; 18 5/16 in x 13 11/16 in
- plate: 44.5 cm x 32 cm; 17 17/32 in x 12 19/32 in
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.03.20
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.03534.03.20
- Credit Line
- Marsh Collection
- subject
- Holy Family
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Religion
- Communications
- Marsh Collection
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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