Saint Celestine V and the angel
Maker
(artist)
1664-1745
(etcher)
born 1646
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
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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