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Saint Celestine V and the angel

Maker

(artist)
1664-1745

(etcher)
born 1646

Title

Saint Celestine V and the angel

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 46.8 cm
Width: 32.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.903

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





St Celestine V




Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper margin, black ink: “51”; below the image, black ink: “DIVVS PETRVS COELESTINVS PPV // Congregationis Monachor. Coelestinor. Ord. S. Benedicti Fundator, priscam solitudinem in // qua suavissimum, ac iucundissimus Angelorum, et Beator. colloquium crebro deliba- // verat. Secum animo repetens. Papatu se abdicare, et ad nemora iterato se recipere perpense cogitat”; lower left edge, black ink: “Gio. Paolo Melchiori inv. e del.”; lower right edge, black ink: “Benedetto Fariat Sculp.”; bottom centre, graphite: “N. 50”.

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