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Saint Anne is dressed in white lying in a crimson-draped tall bed. She hands Baby Mary to a woman in blue and yellow. In the foreground, one woman pours water into a basin and another takes a cloth out a basket. The windows on the left and right illustrate Bible passages, Noah on the left and Balaam on the right.
More information
Title of artwork, date
The Birth of the Virgin, c. 1520
Date supported
1922
Medium and material
Oil on wood
Dimensions
67 x 43 cm
Gifted by
Sir Henry H Howorth
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