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Print made by Isaac Beckett, 1652/3–1719, British, The Confession, between 1681 and 1688
- Title:
The Confession
- Date:
- between 1681 and 1688
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 1/2 × 8 1/16 inches (26.6 × 20.5 cm), Image: 10 1/16 x 7 7/8 inches (25.5 x 20 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower center: "A Lovely La[...] [...] for [...] come"; inscribed on verso, center: "4- 307 - | void [...] Rufuli(?)"; lower center: "337"
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "Moroone pinx. :"; lower right: "I Beckett ex: et fe :"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.821
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bowl (vessel) | chair | cloak | commentary | confession | cross (object) | crucifix | curls | genre subject | gesture | hands | interior | kneeling | listening | man | masturbation | monk | painting (visual work) | parody | pattern (design element) | pointing | praying | religious and mythological subject | rope | satire | smiling | water | woman
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22512
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Darkness Into Light - The Early Mezzotint (Yale University Art Gallery, 1976-02-03 - 1976-04-11) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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