The Virgin embracing the body of Christ after the Crucifixion: Saint John the Evangelist and the three Maries look on, and Joseph of Arimethea holds a jar of embalming fluid. Gouache.

[Netherne, Surrey], [19--]

1 painting : gouache, with gold paint ; sheet 24.4 x 17.7 cm

Easter greetings ... The Master of St. Matthew (c. 1220)

This work is untitled, the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Executed at Netherne Hospital in Surrey. The painter expressed a preference that works by the same painter in a different genre should be anonymous. No such preference is known to have been expressed for the present work, or for others in the same genre, but the name of the painter has been withheld from this catalogue in the absence of an expressed wish to the contrary

Wellcome Collection 3025745i