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Engraving on paper
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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 ... »
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Archival history
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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21.1 cm x 26.5 cm
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Note
Engraver: Philips Galle
After Maarten van Heemskerk
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Part of a series of seventeen prints depicting the Acts of the Apostles.
Plate 3
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Text in the lower margin from Acts 2: "En datur in flamma Jordanis [...] portauit in ethera carnem."
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Sources
Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, Amsterdam, 1949 (308)
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. 54)