216 - Adoration of the Shepherds

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MCPP/FF/FPR/L/216

Title

Adoration of the Shepherds

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  • 1585 (Creation)

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Engraving on paper

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Name of creator

(1593-1637)

Biographical history

Educated at Clare Hall/College; Fellow of Clare. From 1618 to 1624 he was director to the affairs of the Virginia Company. Ferrar was ordained as a deacon in 1626 and founded the small Anglican community of Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, shortly after his mother Mary Ferrar purchased the land there in 1624.

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(1588-1657)

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The loose Ferrar prints were conserved in 2014-2015. Please note that the digital images of the prints were captured before conservation work took place.

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20.9 cm x 12.9 cm

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Engraver: Anton Wierix II
Publisher: Gerard de Jode
After Marten de Vos

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Part of a set of twenty-two prints depicting the Passion of Christ.
Plate 1

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The print comes from the Thesaurus Veteris et Novi Testamenti, a collection of groups of prints by different designers and engravers published together by Gerard de Jode in Antwerp in 1585.

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Text in the lower margin: "En puerumq[ue] deumq[ue] simul nune [...] qui quoque finis erit."
Text in a flower border also in the lower margin: "Haec nox illa exopta [...] in Crucis ligno consummata."

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MS annotation on the verso of the print in the hand of John Ferrar: "110".

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Digital image of the print available online (subscription service only): https://www.virginiacompanyarchives.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Detail/ferrar-print-216/519128

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Sources

Alvin, L. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre des trois frères, Jean, Jérôme & Antoine Wierix, Brussels, 1866 (389bis)
Mauquoy-Hendrickx, M. Les estampes des Wierix, conservées au Cabinet de Estampes de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier. Catalogue raisonné enrichi de notes prises dans diverses autres collections Brussels, 1978 (101)

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