113 - Beati qui esuriunt

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MCPP/FF/FPR/L/113

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Beati qui esuriunt

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  • 1639 (Creation)

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Engraving on paper

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(1593-1637)

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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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      21.3 cm x 24.7 cm

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      Engraver: Harmen Jansz. Muller
      Publisher: Claes Jansz. Visscher
      After Maarten van Heemskerk

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      Part of a series of eight prints depicting the Beatitudes.
      Second state
      Plate 4

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      Text in the lower margin: "Macte animo, qui coelestem [...] presentem cernere Christum."

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          Sources

          Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, Amsterdam, 1949 (405)
          Kerrich, T. A catalogue of the prints, which have been engraved after Martin Heemskerck; or rather, an essay towards such a catalogue, Cambridge, 1829 (p. 5)

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