IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240088 accession number: P.15026-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2020 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: After the painting by Murillo, The Vision of Saint Francis of Paola (c.1670; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, U.S.A, 2003.144). Saint Francis, an old bearded man wearing a monk's habit, kneels on a coastal path, the sea visible beyond and to the left. Seen in three-quarter profile to the left, he gestures with his right hand and leans on a stick held in his left. He witnesses a Heavenly vision at upper left in the form of an aureole of golden light with the word: 'CHA / RI / TAS' at the centre which is accompanied by a host of cherubs. Saint Francis of Paola (1416-1507) was the founder of the Order of Minims, a religious order committed to perpetual abstinence and acts of humility. title: print NOTES ----- type: history note value: VanSittart gave 1,485 engravings to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1879 and this mezzotint was probably included within this group. The number written in graphite in large script on the verso presumably relates to some kind of count by curators at the time of the acquisition. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Given by Augustus Arthur VanSittart, ?1879 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240088 TECHNIQUES ---------- mezzotint CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: McArdell, James maker: McArdell, James maker: Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban