Call Number: Drawings Un58 no. 93 Box D166 - Yale University Library Search Results

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Published / Created:: [ca. 1815]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 93 Box D166
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A coffin is carried down the stairs of a gothic church by a procession of monks, lit by the light of the full moon and the flames of the torches that some of the monks carry. They walk toward an open crypt in the foreground. The light from the crypt illuminates the monument on the wall opposite (a knight in armor) as well as two monks kneeling at the opening of the crypt and a third monk holding a thurible. A man with a red cloak stands in the shadows on the left, looking down at the scene at the crypt. The image is intended to be backlit. The light sources in the image -- the moon, the glow shining out of the gothic crypt, and the torch-bearing friars -- are enhanced when the image is held up to a light
Description:: Title and approximate date of production from dealer's description., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Drawn in the style of the painter and etcher Franz Joseph Manskirch (1768-1840), who worked in London between 1793 and 1819., and On paper watermarked "J. Whatman Turkey Mill".
Subject (Topic):: Churches, Funeral processions, Incense, Monks, Moonlight, Pointed arches, and Torches
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [A nocturnal monastic funeral procession in a medieval chapel] [art original].