"Mary kneeling and holding out the Christ child to the high priest, who leans down with open arms; a group of men looking on from a higher level between pillars, one climbing down; Joseph standing behind Mary in a humble attitude to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from published state., Proof state with scratched lettering. For published state with title, painting dimensions, new statements of responsibility and new publication line engraved below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1861,1109.248., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill. The published state of the plate includes the text "From the original picture painted by Rembrandt, in the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole" below image; see British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 160 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
