121 - Saturn

Zone d'identification

Cote

MCPP/FF/FPR/L/121

Titre

Saturn

Date(s)

  • undated (Création/Production)

Étendue matérielle et support

Engraving on paper

Zone du contexte

Nom du producteur

(1593-1637)

Notice biographique

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 ... »

Histoire archivistique

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.

Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation

Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques

20.7 cm x 24.7 cm

Zone des notes

Note

Engraver: Harmen Jansz. Muller
Publisher: Theodor Galle
After Maarten van Heemskerk

Note

Part of a series of seven prints depicting the planets.
Second state
Plate 7

Note

Text in the lower margin: "Saturnini sunt inuidi, pigri, tristes, [...] mortes in aquis, uenena, suffocationes."

Mots-clés

Zone du contrôle de la description

Sources

Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, Amsterdam, 1949 (437)
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. 96)