FIRST OF THE SERIES (THE VIRGIN ON THE CRESCENT)
Circa 1511
First of the series “The Life of the Virgin”
No monogram
217×194 mm
Handbooks:
Impression in the Museum collections
1511
Watermark:
a head of a bull with a cross and a flower
Provenance:
State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924
Inv. Г-2233
Comments:
it is a trial impression made before the edition with texts, very rare; similar impressions exist only in Gotha and Stutgart. It is dated by watermark (M. 188, I)
Other impressions in the Museum collections:
1) Inv. Г-2234, on paper without watermarks and without text on the back, probably made in the middle of the 16th century (M. 188, III, a);
2) Inv. Г-112058, on paper without watermarks and without text; the quality of the impression is worse
