Saint John the Baptist

Artist:: Girolamo Mocetto (Italian, ca. 1470–1531)

Date:: 1500–1506

Medium:: Engraving; second state

Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/16 × 8 11/16 in. (33.8 × 22 cm) trimmed

Classification:: Prints

Credit Line:: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933

Accession Number:: 33.54.5

Not on view

Inscription: Lettered on the banderole: EGO.VOX.CLAMANTIS.INDESERTO PARATE VIAM DNI (I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Prepare the way of the Lord; Mark 1:3). Monogram at lower right

Marking: On verso The Metropolitan Museum of Art stamp; Albertina stamp (Lugt 5d)
Watermark: roue denté and countermark

Graphische Sammlung Albertina; Vendor: C. G. Boerner LLC, New York

Bartsch XIII.219.5; TIB.XXV comm.2505.008 S2; Hind V.164.9ii

Adam von Bartsch Le Peintre graveur. Vienna, 1803.

Arthur Mayger Hind Early Italian engraving: a critical catalogue with complete reproduction of all the prints described. London and New York, 1938-1948.

TIB The Illustrated Bartsch - Commentary Volumes. 1978–.

Timelines
Venice and Northern Italy, 1400–1600 A.D.

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