Wilton album, folio 27b: The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth, John the Baptist, and Mary Magdalene (?)

Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) Italian

Not on view

On folio 27 with one other print: 27.78.1(122)
For more information on the Wilton album see entry for 27.78.1(1-428)
Richardson links the poses of the Virgin and Elizabeth to Raphael's Canigiani Holy Family, engraved by Bonasone.
While listed as a third state in The Illustrated Bartsch, this appears to be a good impression of a relatively early state. For a worn impression, possibly of this same state, see British Museum 1858,0417.1616; for an extensively reworked state, in which the face and robe of Elizabeth are re-engraved in drypoint and a knob added to the vessel held by Magdalene, see British Museum W,1.203. Given the differences in the face of Elizabeth, the grotesques on the plinth, and the buckle of the Virgin's sash British Museum 1874,0808.358 appears to be a different version of the design taken from a different plate, rather than a different state of this print

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