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Cut Paper, Devotional Image with the Virgin of Einsiedeln

This is a Cut paper. It is dated ca. 1750 and we acquired it in 1962. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and gouache, gold paint on cloth-covered cardboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.


This cut paper image depicts the Virgin of Einsiedeln, a votive figure carved in black wood clothed in gold brocade and jewels, housed in a shrine of black marble in the Benedictine Abbey of Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Tradition holds that miraculous events became associated with the Abbey soon after the votive’s arrival in the ninth century; Einsiedeln has been an important pilgrimage site since then.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 21.5 × 14.5 cm (8 7/16 × 5 11/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Cut Paper, Devotional Image with the Virgin of Einsiedeln; pen and ink, brush and gouache, gold paint on cloth-covered cardboard; H x W: 21.5 × 14.5 cm (8 7/16 × 5 11/16 in.); 1962-59-43

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