IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240050 accession number: P.15003-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2020 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: After the painting (same direction) by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), (between 1646 and 1650, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, entered the Hermitage in 1779; acquired from the R. Walpole collection, Houghton Hall, England, ??-316). Mary at centre left opens the swaddling cloth to display the sleeping Christ child in the manger, bright white light emanating from the child. A bearded shepherd kneels at lower right, his hands held aloft in a gesture of awe, a lamb laid on the ground in front of him. An old woman, Mary's midwife, stands to his right, a shepherd boy behind her, another tall, bearded shepherd stands behind Mary at the centre of the composition and a fourth shepherd enters the stable carrying a crook at the far right. Oxen occupy the space at the far left. title: print NOTES ----- type: history note value: The '5' inscribed on the recto at lower left relates to a handwritten Museum register of loose Kerrich prints where this print is listed as no. 5 ('after Murillo by Val. Green 'The Adoration of the shepherds' / Houghton Coll [mezzot.]) in the Kerrich 'Portfolio marked Py'. An encircled 'K' in the FM annotated Nagler refers to this Kerrich print. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by the Rev. R. E. Kerrich, 1872 (received 1873) STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240050 TECHNIQUES ---------- mezzotint CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1775 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Green, Valentine maker: Boydell, John maker: Farington, George maker: Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban