The Annunciation
Details
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Title
The Annunciation
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Artist/maker
Anonymous (printmaker) -
Associated place
Europe (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1440 - 1450 -
Material and technique
woodcut, coloured in blue, green, scarlet, crimson, pink and yellow plus metal, probably formerly gold or silver (now oxidized) on vellum
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Object type
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Dimensions
sheet 16.1 x 11.2 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.
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Museum location
Museum department
Western Art
Accession no.
WA1863.1882
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Further reading
Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig, Handbuch der Holz- und Metallschnitte des XV. Jahrhunderts. 8 vols (Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1926-1930), VIII, 34e
Dodgson, Campbell, Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929), 12
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