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- Title:
The Minister
- Date:
- 1918
- Medium:
- Etching; 2nd state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 3/4 × 74 inches (27.3 × 188 cm), Plate: 9 3/4 × 12 inches (24.8 × 30.5 cm), Image: 7 5/8 × 10 inches (19.4 × 25.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower center: "D. 21II 8 imp. only The Minister 2nd State"; lower right "2/400"
Partial watermark: AM
Lettered inside plate, lower left: "Tanquam desiderio carrissimi capitis, | Hanc imaginem delineamus, necnon offerimus | In piam memoriam laudabilis numeri | (DOVCE, CLEMENT, AVSTIN, HAVTECTOR, JOHN, GABRIEL, THOMAS) | Monasterii de Oseney olim campanarum."; lower center: "Quorum uocibus, parter canetibus, | (Dum pristina felicitas sinebat) | Longe lateque aether gauisus est, | Oquam suauibus. O quam iosundis." lower center: "Iam nune, eheu, seuiente diabolo, | Silentium incubat maestiter deiectis. | Fama autem tantorum et gloria, | Adhue et in semper, nunguam peritura, | Resonat et resonabit. Alleluia."
Signed in graphite, lower right: "F.L. Griggs, Imp."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1994.4.250
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- arches | architectural subject | battlements | birds | buttresses | church | doorways | finials | gables | minster | parapets | people | railings | shadows | shrubs | steps | towers (building divisions) | trees | turrets | vines | walls | windows
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:35807
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