Title(s)

Saint Christopher in the ford

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-481-20

Artist

• photographer: Frederick Hollyer
• after drawing by: Francesca Alexander

Dating

c. 1875 - in or before 1885

Material

• photographic support

Technique

platinum process

Measurements

height 232 mm × width 167 mm

What

• St. Christopher, with the infant Christ on his shoulders, wading through the water and carrying his staff (palm-tree); sometimes a hermit stands on the further bank beside a chapel, a lantern in his hand

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Roadside songs of Tuscany (RP-F-2001-7-481)