Verkondiging aan de herders, William Skelton, after Thomas Stothard, 1794

Title(s)

Verkondiging aan de herders
The Angels Appearing to the Shepherds (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-73.079

Catalogue reference

• Apell 1
• LeBlanc 16

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 12

Artist

• printmaker: William Skelton (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Thomas Stothard (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Thomas Macklin (mentioned on object)

Place

printmaker: England
publisher: London

Dating

1794

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 493 mm × width 607 mm

What

• annunciation of Christ's birth to the shepherds (and/or shepherdesses) at night; a host of singing angels in the air

Acquisition

purchase 1828

Copyright

Public domain

• Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler oder Lexicon der vorzüglichsten Kupferstecher des 19. Jahrhunderts, welche in Linienmanier gearbeitet haben sowie Beschreibung ihrer besten und gesuchtesten Blätter, Aloys Apell, p. 399, cat.nr. 1
• Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant un dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, Ch Leblanc, dl. 3, p. 528, cat.nr. 16
• Selling prints to the Rijksmuseum in 1827, Erik Hinterding