Holy Family
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1580-1605
name: label: Artist
content: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
label: Engraver
content: Cornelis Galle I, Flemish, 1576 - 1650
label: Publisher
content: Philip Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: Holy Family with the Virgin Mary seated, holding the infant Jesus in her lap. Joseph stands behind.
label: Description
content: Verso: Left half of a scene with 1947-58-6v. In the interior of a hall, an executioner, standing at left, hands a platter with the head of St. John the Baptist to Salome. At center, King Herod reclines on a couch at the head of a banqueting table. Guests recline to either side. Numerous additional figures, including soldiers, stand around the edge of the colonnaded chamber. In the left background, within another building, Salome is seen again.
place: label: made in
content: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Janos Scholz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1947-58-5
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Recto: pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on laid paper Verso: pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black washes over black chalk on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Overall): 8.3 × 10.4 cm (3 1/4 × 4 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Right sheet): 8.2 × 5.3 cm (3 1/4 × 2 1/16 in.)