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The Annunciation

Image credit: Manchester Art Gallery

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Scene depicting the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary by the Archangel Gabriel that she will give birth to Christ. Situated outdoors on the flat roof of a middle-eastern house, surrounded by a low stone wall, Mary kneels, her head bowed, right hand clasped to her chest and her left hand open and extended outwards – as the winged angel hovers over her. Gabriel, to the left, with blue-pink drapery and a mane of golden hair, gazes down at Mary, extends his right hand towards her head and indicates upwards at the sky with his left hand. Arranged on a mat to the side of Mary, who wears white drapery, are a handful of straws of corn and a piece of bread (a symbol of the Eucharist and the human nature of Christ); growing in the left foreground and behind the Archangel is a plant laden with pink blossom and new leaf growth (possibly almond blossom, a symbol of divine approval and also that of the Virgin Mary).

Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester

Title

The Annunciation

Date

1894

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 84.5 x W 53.5 cm

Accession number

1917.282

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Leicester Collier, 1917

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed and dated at centre bottom: F Shields 1894

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