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Order of St Benedict (The Benedictine Tree)
(c. 1655)
plate from Monasticon Anglicanum (Monastic England) by William Dugdale and Roger Dodsworth, printed by Richard Hodgkinson, London, 1655, vol. 1
Medium
etching
Measurements
30.7 × 18.1 cm (image) 31.4 × 18.5 cm (plate) 31.7 × 18.8 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
New Hollstein 1418 iii/iii; Pennington 227 iv/iv
Edition
3rd of 3 states
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: W.Hollar fecit,
printed in ink u.r.: After the Preface, I.
printed in ink l.l.: 2
printed in ink (in image) u.l.-l.r.: (members of the priesthood and nobility labelled on tree branches, letters A-O, and Saints labelled in scrolls)
printed (vertically) in ink (in image) (in scroll) u.l.-c.l.: He gave them ye (e in superscript) Prieſthood among ye (e in superscript) People & beatitified them with comely ornaments. Ecclc: 45.7.
printed (vertically) in ink (in image) (in scroll) c.r.-u.r.: Their seed ſhall be mighty upon earth: the Generation of the upright ſhall be bleſsed. Psal: 112.2.
printed in ink (in image) l.l. and l.r.: (key to A-O with extensive Latin text)
Accession Number
1278.1389-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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