148 - The massacre of the innocents

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MCPP/FF/FPR/L/148

Title

The massacre of the innocents

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  • 1585 (Creation)

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Engraving on paper

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(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 after his mother Mary Ferrar purchased the land there in 1624.

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(1588-1657)

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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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      21.4 cm x 27.6 cm

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      Engraver: Jan Sadeler I
      Publisher: Gerard de Jode
      After Gerard van Groeningen

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      Part of a series of nine prints depicting the life of Christ.
      Plate 10

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      The print comes from the Thesaurus Veteris et Novi Testamenti, a collection of groups of prints by different designers and engravers published together by Gerard de Jode in Antwerp in 1585.

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      Text in the lower margin from Matthew 2: "Infantes matrum iugulantur ab vbere rapti, Hoc numero vt caderet filius ipse dei".

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      MS annotations on the verso of the print in the hand of John Ferrar: "11", "11" and "Massakre".

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          Sources

          Mielke, H. Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 38, 1975, pp. 29-83 (44)

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