The Nativity
c. 1500/1510
Artist, Italian, active c. 1500/1520

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 27.6 x 23.5 cm (10 7/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.5847
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.261, no. 1, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 768); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1957
The Life of Christ in Prints, 14 venue touring exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts (J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, MI; Time, Inc., New York, NY; Washington County Museum, Hagerstown, MD; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO; Newcomb College, New Orleans, LA; Wells College, Aurora, NY; Mississippi Art Association, Jackson, MS; Calgary Allied Arts Centre, Alberta, Canada; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada; Sackville Art Association, New Brunswick, Canada; and Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada), 1957-1960, no cat.
1973
Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 218.
Bibliography
1938
Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.
1973
Levenson et al. 1973, no.134.
Watermarks
present but not identified
Wikidata ID
Q65023762