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Christmas: Virgin and Child with the Young John the Baptist by Sandro Botticelli 5-Pack
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Issue Type:
Special
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Issue City:
New York, NY 10199 (Mega Stamp Show)
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Issue Date:
38282
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Issue Series:
Holiday
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This is a 5–Pack of Double–sided booklets of 20 42–cent Christmas: Virgin and Child with the Young John the Baptist by Sandro Botticelli special stamps (a total of 100 stamps).
On October 23, 2008, in New York, New York, the Postal Service™ issued a 42–cent, Christmas: Virgin and Child with the Young John the Baptist by Sandro Botticelli special stamp, designed by Richard Sheaff of Scottsdale, Arizona.
The 2008 Christmas stamp features a detail from a work by the Italian master Sandro Botticelli, entitled Virgin and Child with the Young John the Baptist. This painting, tempera and oil on wood, dates to around 1490 and is now in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. It presents one of the most common figural groups in religious art.
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