206 - The son returns and is welcomed

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Código de referência

MCPP/FF/FPR/L/206

Título

The son returns and is welcomed

Data(s)

  • 1585 (Produção)

Dimensão e suporte

Engraving on paper

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Nome do produtor

(1593-1637)

História biográfica

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 ... »

História do arquivo

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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Características físicas e requisitos técnicos

19.7 cm x 27.1 cm

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Nota

Engraver: Jan Collaert I
Publisher: Gerard de Jode
After Crispin van den Broeck (attributed to)

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Part of a set of four prints depicting the parable of the prodigal son.

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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 Luke 15: "Fit supplex veniamque petit veniamq[ue] reportat A parte vera salus non aliunde venit."

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MS annotation on the verso of the print in the hand of John Ferrar: "93".

Pontos de acesso

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Fontes

Mielke, H. Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 38, 1975, pp. 29-83 (51)