Print made by Frederik Christiaan Bierweiler, active 1800–1831, Dutch, De Begraving, ca. 1820
- Title:
- De Begraving
- Additional Title(s):
- The Entombment
- Date:
- ca. 1820
- Materials & Techniques:
- Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 26 3/8 × 20 1/2 inches (67 × 52.1 cm), Plate: 24 1/4 × 17 inches (61.6 × 43.2 cm), Image: 23 × 17 inches (58.4 × 43.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower center: "No.12"
Lettered below image: "P.P.Rubens, pinxt. | DE BEGRAVING. | F.C.Bierweiler, Sculpt | Proefdruk. | Uigegeven te Amsterdam by J. Groenewoud, Jz. op de | Princegracht by de Utreschse Straat in No.26."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.646
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- body | burial | Christianity | cloth | crown of thorns | death | graves | holding | kneeling | linen | men | mourning | nails | New Testament | religious and mythological subject | tomb | weeping | white | women | wounds
- Associated People:
- Mary
Mary Magdalene, Saint (early 1st c. AD – mid-late 1st c. AD)
Jesus - Access:
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