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THE EVELATION OF ST. MARY MAGDALEN
Circa 1504 – 1505
Story:
With monogram
213×143 mm
Handbooks:
Impression in the Museum collections
Early 16th century
No watermark
Provenance:
State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924
Inv. Г-2994
Comments:
despite the absence of watermarks, the impression can be considered one of the earliest, because the strokes are clear and there are eight birds, three sailing ships and three boats: their numbers diminish in later impressions. This impression is similar to those made with the watermarks: a head of a bull or a big crown, it has the same insignificant gaps in the second range of mountains. Meder considers those impressions to be the first ones
Other impressions in the Museum collections:
Inv. Г-2224, on paper with an unclear watermark. The impression is grey, many parts of frame are missing; made in the second half of the 16th century
