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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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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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21.5 cm x 27.6 cm
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Engraver: Cornelis Galle I
Publisher: Theodor Galle
After Jan van der Straet
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Text in the lower margin: "Sedvla Zachariae in domum abit Maria, [...] ad grauidae vox simulatq[ue] venit."
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Extensive MS annotations on the verso of the print in the hand of John Ferrar: "This Booke of Stradanus of the Stroy [Story] of the Gospell But espetially that if to be had a lim[b] of the Angell appeiring to Zakerias and if none of that of Stradens [Stradanus] to be had then you must Send me the Booke of that of Christ Acting in the tempell it is in Architecture manner black prints you Sent one of the Bookes which I returned having the same booke by me But coming now to peruse it I find wanting the First leafe of Story the Angell Coming to Zakerias and he Coming out to the Pepull [People] and could not Speake; if you Can not helpe me to that Singill Picture which is only that I want of the whole Booke then you must Send me the whole Booke Alsoe I shall have occasion to use more of that kind of Story and very picture if there be many other that have graven it after many other Formes the more variety the better in this and all other for my turne for they are of greate helpes when they are different kinds and formes both smaler and greter: This I pray observe in all Pictures you send me Variety in the same kind and Story the better.".
And: "John Stradens Booke send me of the story of the Gospell begininge w[i]th that of Zakerias".
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See Smyth, A. (2024) The book-makers : a history of the book in eighteen remarkable lives. London: The Bodley Head.