6a - Bearing the cross

Identity area

Reference code

MCPP/FF/FPR/B/6a

Title

Bearing the cross

Date(s)

  • 1585 (Creation)

Extent and medium

Engraving on paper

Context area

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 ... »

Name of creator

(9 November 1882 - 16 June 1943)

Biographical history

Stephen Gaselee was born in Brunswick Gardens, Kensington, London, the elder son of Henry Gaselee (1842–1926), fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and his wife, Alice Esther. His great-grandfather was Sir Stephen Gaselee, justice of the court of common ... »

Name of creator

(5 July 1862 - 16 December 1937)

Biographical history

George Nuttall was born in San Francisco, California, and was the second son of Robert Kennedy Nuttall MD, from Tittour, co. Wicklow, and his wife, Magdalena. In 1865 the family returned to Europe, and the children were educated in England, France, ... »

Name of creator

(1906-1988)

Biographical history

Derek Pepys Whiteley was born in 1906, the son of Gerard Tarver Whiteley and the Hon. Amy Theresa Pepys. He was educated at Sherborne and King's College, and was called to the Bar from the Middle Temple in 1931. He became senior legal assistant in the ... »

Conditions of access and use area

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

20.2 cm x 12.3 cm

Notes area

Note

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

Note

From a series of prints on 'The Passion of Christ'.
Plate 16

Note

Lettered in the lower margin: "Ecce suis humeris ingenti [...] pectora casta manu."

Access points

Description control area

Sources

Mielke 57
Hollstein 105-1(2)
Hollstein 452-1(2)