IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240091 accession number: P.15029-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2020 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: After the painting by Murillo (1670-1680; exh. B.I., 1839, no. 108, as 'The Assumption of the Virgin' when it was in the collection of William Ralph Cartwright (1771-1847), Aynhoe, Northamptonshire as descended from John Blackwood; ?Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, U.S.A., 2003.5). The Virgin standing in the clouds in the hollow of a crescent moon looks up towards the left. Her hand are crossed at her breast. There are five Cherubs at her feet; two at lower left which hold roses and lilies, one directly behind her drapery to the left, and two at lower right, one of which holds a palm and stretches his right hand upwards. Two groups of three Cherubim to upper left and upper right. title: print NOTES ----- type: history note value: VanSittart gave 1,485 engravings to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1879 and this mezzotint was probably included within this group. The number written in pen and ink on the verso presumably relates to Vansittart's own cataloguing system and the number written in graphite on the verso to some kind of count by curators at the time of the acquisition. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Given by Augustus Arthur VanSittart, ?1879 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240091 TECHNIQUES ---------- mezzotint CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: McArdell, James maker: Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban