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Henry Heath

Maker

(artist)
1700-1799

Title

Henry Heath

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 13.5 cm
Width: 10 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3796

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper centre margin & recto : : R.P.F Paulus A.S. Magdalena Alias Heath Convent F.F. minorum Recoll Anglorum Duaci Guard Londini Mar Coron 17 April 1643 //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre margin & recto : Absit Mihi gloriari nisi in Curce. Gal. 6:14 //

Inscription: inscription : stamped : upper right mount & recto : later Witt inscription : WITT / LIBRARY //

Inscription: inscription : stamped : lower centre mount & recto : later Witt inscription : Heath //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre mount & recto : later Witt inscription : Heath, Henry / From a print in the 'Certamen Seraphicum.' / Born at Peterborough; studied at Cambridge, and afterwards at / Douay, where he became a Franciscan. He was sent as a missionary into / England, and soon after his landing was apprehended, condemned, / and executed as on of that character. He suffered at Tyburn, 27th April, / 1643. His head was placed on London Bridge, and his quarters on the / city gates. //

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