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Description
English: The Deposition, after Mantegna; two men on ladders lowering the body of Christ from the cross, with a group of mourners below, a rocky landscape beyond with the city in the distance
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, on vellum
Depicted people Representation of: Jesus Christ
Date between 1446 and 1506
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1446-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1506-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium vellum
Dimensions
Height: 429 millimetres
Width: 307 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1895,0915.777
Notes

Corresponds with some changes to the engraving 'The Deposition' (B.XIII, 229.2/ 230.4; the impression of the first state in the BM is 1845,0825.599). The print is normally described as a work by a Mantegna follower; David Landau in the 1992 Mantegna catalogue attributed it to Mantegna (nos. 32-3 in catalogue). The BM drawing differs from the print in a number of small details, such as the blank tabula hanging from the tree on the right and the absence of Christ's blood running down the cross, which show that it is not a direct copy after the engraving. It is perhaps a record of a drawing by Mantegna in preparation for the print. As David Ekserdjian correctly observes the choice of vellum, a more expensive material than paper, suggests it was made to last either as a studio record or as a gift. H.C.

Lit.: J.C. Robinson, 'Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters, forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, Esq.', London, 1876, no. 330* (as Mantegna; the aterix denotes it was acquired after Robinson had ceased advising Malcolm); A.E. Popham and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries', London, 1950, I, no. 166, II, pl. CLVI (with previous literature); U. Bauer-Eberhardt, 'Lauro Padovano und Leonardo bellini als Maler, Miniatoren und Zeichner', "Pantheon", 1989, XLVII, p. 68, no. 5, fig. 27 (as Lauro Padovano); D. Ekserdjian, in exhib. cat., London, Royal Academy and New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Andrea Mantegna', 1992, no. 34; G. Marini, in exhib. cat.(Marinelli and Marini eds), Verona, Palazzo del Gran Guardia, 'Mantegna e le Arti a Verona', 2006, under no. 26

Popham & Pouncey 1950 This drawing, made certainly in the fifteenth century and perhaps in Mantegna's workshop, corresponds closely, in the same direction, with the school engraving of 'Christ taken down from the Cross' (B. xiii, p. 230, 4). It differs in some details, e.g. in the addition of the tablet hanging on the tree-trunk on the r.

Literature: JCR 330; Hind, B.M., p. 348, under no. 6; the same, v, p. 20, under no. 10.
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