480 - The marriage at Cana of Galilee

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Reference code

MCPP/FF/FPR/L/480

Title

The marriage at Cana of Galilee

Date(s)

  • 1593 (Creation)

Extent and medium

Engraving on paper

Context area

Name of creator

Ferrar, Nicholas (1593–1637), religious writer and administrator
(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 ... »

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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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Physical characteristics and technical requirements

22.8 cm x 14.2 cm

Notes area

Note

Engraver: Anton Wierix II
After Bernardino Passeri

Note

One of 153 plates of the Evangelicae Historiae Imagines, published in Antwerp.
Plate 15

Note

Text in the upper margin: "Dominica ii. post epiphan. / Nuptiae ad Cana Galilaeae. / Ioan ij. Anno xxxi."
Two columns of text in the lower margin in an alphabetical list.

Note

MS annotation on the verso of the print in the hand of John Ferrar: "18".

Note

Digital image of the print available online (subscription service only): https://www.virginiacompanyarchives.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Detail/ferrar-print-480/520009

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Sources

Alvin, L. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre des trois frères, Jean, Jérôme & Antoine Wierix, Brussels, 1866 (1683)