DrawingsBritish19th-20th century

Mystic Nativity, after Botticelli

19th-20th century

Artists

Charles Fairfax MurrayArtist

Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro Filipepi)Artist after

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Watercolor on cream wove paper

Culture

British

Century

19th-20th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

35.6 x 25.5 cm (14 x 10 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Charles Eliot Norton, by descent; to his daughter, Elizabeth Gaskell Norton (by 1908), gift; to Edward W. Forbes, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1970.

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