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In the left background is a view of the hill of Calvary and crucifixes; at centre are two figures; on the right is Christ's tomb, in which are two seated figures.  Features of Christ in brown and sanguine finely hatched and blended; features of Mary more summarily hatched in brown with touches of grey in the eyes; both over a pale carnation ground; hair of Christ in pale brown wash, lined and hatched in darker colour; dress in grey-brown wash, modelled in darker colour and the lights in pale grey; cloak in pale orange wash, modelled in darker colour and some lights taken out; dress of Mary in strokes of crimson wash over the bare vellum; shirt in pale orange wash modelled in darker colour and shaded in grey; cloak in dark blue modelled with darker colour and the lights in pale blue-grey; background, figures in middle distance etc., washed and hatched summarily in transparent and opaque colours, some very gummy; a brown marginal strip; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. \n\n<u>Frame:</u> Ebony over oak with the inner part of the moulding gilt; the latter regilded in 1920.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Nicholas Dixon","id":"A7670"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Hans Holbein the younger","id":"A8516"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":"after"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"watercolour","id":"AAT15045"},{"text":"vellum","id":"x42751"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painting","id":"x30598"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"},{"text":"Christianity","id":"THES48978"},{"text":"Religion","id":"THES48900"}],"styles":[{"text":"English School","id":"x44855"},{"text":"Baroque","id":"AAT21147"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006BC5422"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"RMC","shelf":"1","box":"1"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"miniature","id":"AAT33936"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1673-1680","earliest":"1673-01-01","latest":"1680-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Frederick Tessier, Esq.","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"188","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"225","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from John Murdoch <u>Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum</u>. 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