Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child, Saint Joseph, Saint Anne and angels. Colour etching by C.M. Metz after P. Testa.

1798

1 print

Pietro Testa. In the collection of E. Knight Esq.re "In the collection of E. Knight Esq.re": presumably either the Hereford and Worcestershire iron manufacturer Edward Knight (1734-1812), whose collection was kept at his house at Portland Place in London, or Jane Austen's brother Edward Knight (1767-1852)

R. Weigel, Die Werke der Maler in ihren Handzeichnungen, Leipzig: R. Weigel, 1865, p. 702, no. 8238 ("Die heilige Familie mit S. Anna und Engeln. Feder u. Bister. Aus Knight's Sammlung. C. Metz sc. H. 13" 6"', Br. 9" 2"'. Metz, Imitations of drawings.")

Elizabeth Cropper and Charles Dempsey, Pietro Testa, 1612–1650: prints and drawings, Philadelphia 1988, pp. 144-145

Wellcome Collection 10581i

After a drawing that was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1984