Descent into Limbo

Anonymous after Andrea Mantegna18th century

Details

Title: Descent into Limbo
Creator: Anonymous after Andrea Mantegna
Date Created: 18th century
Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed: “1492/MA/AMF”
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1947
Materials & Techniques: Engraving and etching on laid paper
Keywords: Bible, copies (derivative objects), New Testament, religions, religious art
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: An 18th-century copy of the painting (collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson); see also the print by Mantegna, late 1460s (B. 2). There are four 18th-century versions of the print (Suzanne Boorsch, 12/14/1990)
Dimensions: Sheet dimensions: 218 mm x 273 mm (8.58 in. x 10.75 in.).
Bibliography: Bartsch 2 (vol. 13, p. 243), copy; see Boorsch and Landau 67a–b; Borenius 26; H.V. part 2, p. 19, note 3
Associated People: Created by Anonymous, After Andrea Mantegna (Italian, ca. 1431 - 1506)
Accession Number: 1947.D1.165

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