[Faith] [graphic]

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Description

Title
[Faith] [graphic]
Creator
Matham, Jacob, 1571-1631, printmaker
Contributor
Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617, artist.
Published / Created
[1593]
Publication Place
Netherlands?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"Plate 1: Faith. A female figure, whole-length, holding a crucifix and chalice, in a niche."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue.
Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram.
Publisher not identified; the set of plates was published on several occasions in the Netherlands, first by Goltzius in Haarlem, then by Claes Jansz Visscher (before 1652) in Amsterdam, and finally by Jochem Ottens. See British Museum online catalogue.
One of a series of seven numbered plates showing whole length personifications of "The Virtues" placed in niches, after Hendrik Goltzius.
Two lines of text engraved below image: Prisca Fides nullo macula ... tartara spernit. Franco Estius.
Plate numbered "1" in lower left corner of image.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss of design and text. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1857,0613.503.
Mounted on page 76 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
1 print : engraving on wove paper ; 31.1 x 12.9 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Based on the type of paper, this impression probably represents a mid- to late-18th century printing from an earlier plate.
Provenance
Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent
1 print : 33 x 17 cm
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Allegorical prints
Engravings Netherlands 1593
Material
engraving ;
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
Netherlands > 1593
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13200841
Object ID (OID)
16193034

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