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Devastation of a Monastery

Maker

After
(artist)
1592-1635

After
(etcher)
1592-1635

(publisher)
ca. 1590-1661 (Life dates)

Title

Devastation of a Monastery

Dimensions

Height: 8.5 cm
Width: 18.9 cm

Accession Number

G.1951.XX.2.6

Mode of Acquisition

Unknown, 1951

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Provenance

Note in old Accessions register 'no record of donor or of date of gift cf note 10/2/55'

Inscriptions

inscription : printed : lower left within image & recto : : Israel ex. Cum privil. Reg. //

inscription : printed in lower margin of image & recto : : Icy par un effort sacrilege et barbare / Ces Demons enragez, et d'vne humeur auare /Pillent, et brullent tout, abattent les Autels; / Se mocquent du respect qu'on doit aux Immortels, / Et tirent des saincts lieux les Vierges desolees / Quils osent enlever pour estre[illeg.] violées. //

inscription : printed : lower right margin & recto : : 6 //

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