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The Christ Child is wearing a necklace with what appears to be a piece of coral hanging from it. In the Renaissance coral was thought to afford the wearer of it protection against illness.\r\n\r\nThis is the only surviving example of this print. Its comparatively large scale compared to many other fifteeth century prints suggests that it may have been intended to be stuck up on a wall or on a piece of panelling as a focus for Christian devotion by its earliest owners. 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The latter took the form of images of the Virgin and Child, saints, scenes from the Bible etc.\r\n\r\nThis print is on an unusually large scale for a fifteenth century religous print. Many much smaller than this have only survived because they were pasted into, or inside the covers of, books.","briefDescription":"The Virgin with the Infant Christ Child on Her Knee, woodcut coloured by hand, northern Italian, 1450-1475","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Ajmar-Wollheim, Marta and Flora Dennis, <i>At Home in Renaissance Italy</i>, London: V&A Publishing, 2006.","id":"AUTH347593"},"details":"","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Schreiber, W. L. <u>Handbuch der Holz-und Metalschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts</u>. Leipzig, 1926-30."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Hind, A.M. <u>An introduction to a history of woodcut, with a detailed survey of work done in the fifteenth century</u>. London, 1935."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Lambert, Susan. <u>The image multiplied: five centuries of printed reproductions of paintings and drawings</u>. London, 1987."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"The Virgin Mary","id":"N480"},{"text":"Jesus Christ","id":"N1515"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"crowns (headdresses)","id":"AAT46020"},{"text":"necklace","id":"AAT46001"},{"text":"coral","id":"AAT11800"},{"text":"bench","id":"AAT38494"}],"contentConcepts":[{"text":"motherhood","id":"AAT221442"}],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"THE VIRGIN AND CHILD\r\n1450-75\r\n\r\nHundreds of examples of this print were doubtless produced but this is the only known survivor. Being stuck to a wooden surface, perhaps a door, saved it from destruction. Prints like this enabled more people to have religious images in their own homes.\r\n\r\nItaly\r\n\r\nWoodcut on paper, coloured by hand and stuck onto wood\r\n\r\nMuseum no.321A-1894\r\n\r\nSIGNS AND SYMBOLS\r\n\r\nThe Virgin Mary has a halo behind her head to show her holiness. As well as being the mother of Jesus, she was 'Queen of Heaven', so she also wears a crown. The top right and left corners of the print have stars representing Heaven.","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["321A-1894"],"accessionNumberNum":"321","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1894,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LW8519"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-16","recordCreationDate":"2006-11-15","availableToBook":false}}