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Saint John the Evangelist
Maker
(artist)
1578-1610
Attributed to
(artist)
1583-1648
Title
Medium
Dimensions
Width: 19.8 cm
Accession Number
Mode of Acquisition
Credit
Copyright
Location
Keywords
Provenance
Exhibition History
German Art, 1400-1800, from Collections in Great Britain, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, 24/10/1961-10/12/1961
Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960 ...More
Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
catalogue untraced, Eton College, 1950
Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943
17th Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 03/01/1938-12/03/1938 ...Less
Literature
p. 344
Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 67
German Art, 1400-1800, from collections in Great Britain, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1961
cat. no. 176 ...More
Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 79
Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 104
17th Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1938
cat. no. 493
Drost, Willi, Elsheimer und sein Kreis, Potsdam 1933
pp. 70, 124
pl. 163 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Verso: upper centre, black chalk, large: three lines of Hebrew letters, apparently translated as “Evangelium / Jehovah //”; lower left, graphite, circled: “No. 126”; lower left, graphite: “no”. Mount (removed but kept in box with drawings), Recto: lower centre, stamped in black ink: “ADAM ELSHEIMER / 1578-1620 //”; lower right edge, graphite: “Elsheimer (attributed) German School”; lower right corner, stamped in black ink: “126”. Mount (removed but kept in one of the mount boxes), Verso: upper centre edge, label printed in blue ink, number added in grey ink: coat of arms above “CITY OF MANCHESTER / ART GALLERY / 72. //”; upper centre, graphite, Witt number, circled: “2796”; lower left corner, red crayon: “369”.
Collector's mark: none.
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