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The Ascension: P.1760-1991

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The Ascension
The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life According to the Christian Institution

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Faithorne, William

Entities

Categories

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950, transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

Production date: AD 1653

Note

II/IV.

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Black carbon ink

Components of the work

Support composed of laid paper
Plate Height 264 mm Width 203 mm
Sheet Height 269 mm Width 207 mm

Techniques used in production

Engraving
Etching

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Et cum haec dixisset, videntib illis elevatus est: & nubes suscepit eum ab oculis eorum. / And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld he was taken up, & a cloud received him out of their sight.
  • Location: Plate lower centre
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: Pag: 555. (crossed out in black ink, and followed by) 585
  • Location: Plate lower left
  • Method of creation: Printed / black ink
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: Act: 1.9.
  • Location: Plate lower centre
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: W: Faithorne sculp.
  • Location: Plate lower right
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Signature

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.1760-1991
Primary reference Number: 86102
Fagan (Faithorne): p. 73
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Saturday 9 July 2022 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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