Saint James the Greater
Master F. P.
n.d.
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 13.2 × 6.3 cm (5 1/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
42
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
In this etching copying Parmigianino’s Saint James the Greater, three-quarters of the upper margin has been trimmed away, leaving only the tip of the saint’s standard emerging from the top. The form of the etching itself conjured up this alteration, and another impression, at the British Museum, which has also been altered in this fashion.