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Engraving of the Virgin's Head from Luini's "Holy Family" Achille Beaugrand

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Achille Beaugrand (1819 - 1860) (engraver)
    after Bernardino Luini (1480/85 - 1532)
    Object type
    print
    Material and technique
    engraving on Chine collé
    Dimensions
    385 x 296 mm (plate); 450 x 325 mm (support sheet)
    Associated people
    Dusecq et Compagnie (active 1863) (publisher)
    Inscription
    Recto:
    below the image, engraved: ach Beaugrand, d'aprés Luini
    just below, blind stamped within an oval border: DUSACQ & CIE. | EDITEURS | À PARIS
    just below, blind-stamped: RYMAN | OXFORD

    Verso, bottom centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
    Provenance

    Presumably presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford); first recorded in the Ruskin Drawing School in 1906; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum c.1949

    No. of items
    1
    Accession no.
    WA.RS.REF.160
  • Subject terms allocated by curators:

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  • References in which this object is cited include:

    References

    Laran, Jean, et al., Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des estampes: Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1939-)

    Ruskin, John, ‘The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogues, Notes and Instructions’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 21, cat. Reference no. 160

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

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