The shepherds observe the newly-born Jesus Christ. Etching by Annibale Carracci, ca. 1606.

  • Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.
Date:
[1606?]
Reference:
21958i
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The picture is divided by a tree trunk in the centre: shepherds on the left, the Holy Family on the right. The implications of the unusual composition are discussed at length by DeGrazia Bohlin, loc. cit., where it is identified as one of the last works of Annibale Carracci before he was incapacitated by illness and died young

Publication/Creation

[Rome] : Nico. van Aelst for[mis], [1606?]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 10.4 x 13.3 cm

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Lettering

Annibal Caracius fecit et inve. Nico. van Aelst for.

Edition

[DeGrazia Bohlin's state III].

References note

Diane DeGrazia Bohlin, Prints and related drawings by the Carracci family: a catalogue raisonné, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979, pp. 470-475, Annibale no. 22
William Schupbach, 'Bring on the shepherds', Wellcome Library blog, 23 December 2013 https://wayback.archive-it.org/16107/20210314001401/http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2013/12/bring-on-the-shepherds/

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Wellcome Collection 21958i

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