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The Birth of the Virgin

Unknown artist, c. 1520

© National Gallery, London

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.

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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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