Hans Sebald Beham - Virgin & Child with Parrot surrealism at the National Theater in

at the National Theater in London

Pennell was commissioned by Philip Gilbert Hamerton to illustrate a book about the Saone River

recontextualizing them in his contemporary works

Signed and dated in pencil by the artist

Plate:  156 mm x 156 mm

Hans Sebald Beham - Virgin & Child with Parrot surrealism at the National Theater inHans Sebald Beham (1500 1550) after Barthel Beham (1502 1540) Virgin and Child with the Parrot Old Master engraving, 1549 [with the initials monogram and date in the plate upper left, and the title S. Maria upper right] Superb impression Former collection H. E. Ten Cate Former collection Colnaghi, London References: Bartsch 19, Pauli, Hollstein 12. Third state (of three). The first state is before the 3rd hatching in the shadow near the foot of the