Adoration of the Shepherds: Museum Object and Cultural History
Adoration of the Shepherds: date made: 1780. delineator: Farington, George. publisher: Boydell, John.
The object in the museum catalogue
Stipple engraving after painting by Carlo Cignani, once in the Common Parlour at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Now in the Catherine Palace, Tsarskoye Selo State Museum Reserve, Russia, as The Adoration of the Shepherds. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1780
- delineator: Farington, George
- publisher: Boydell, John
- graphic artist: Michel, Jean Baptiste
- original artist: Cignani, Carlo
- Object Name: Print
- Object Type: Engraving
- Other Terms: Print; Intaglio; Stipple
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 30.75 cm x 22.75 cm; 12 3/32 in x 8 31/32 in
- Measurements: plate: 28 cm x 20.25 cm; 11 1/32 in x 7 31/32 in
- place made: United Kingdom: England, London
- Subject: Nativity
- Subject: Holy Family
- ID Number: 1978.0534.03.19
- accession number: 1978.0534
- catalog number: 1978.0534.03.19
- Credit Line: Marsh Collection
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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