Christ on the Mount of Olives

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Christ on the Mount of Olives
Christ on the Mount of Olives
Artist/Maker (British, 1701 - 1780)
Date1743
MediumChiaroscuro woodblock print
DimensionsComposition/Sheet: 22 × 15 in. (55.9 × 38.1 cm)
Credit LinePurchase
Object number1994.87
Not on view
Descriptionfrom four blocks
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Provenance 1994: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by purchase from Robert Dance, Inc., New York.
Markings Stamp in red ink on verso at lower left: HERBERT MITCHELL
Published References Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Friends of Art Newsletter, August 1995, Acquisitions 1994
Signature Signed in block at lower right: J:B: Jackson; in block at lower left: Jacobi de Ponte delineavit, et exsculpit
Inscribed Signed in block at lower right: J:B: Jackson; inscribed in block along bottom: Illmae: atq; Excellmae: Dnae: Dnae: / Paulinae Contarenae / NOB: VENETAE, aviti sanguinis ingenti splendore clarae, sed Virtutum nobilitate longe clariori, pussimum / hoc Christianae Fidei monumentum, exiguum obsequentissimae servitutis suae signum, quod ex pictura / Jacobi de Ponte delineavit, et exsculpit, generasissimae Patronae, et Auspici dedicabat; in pencil on verso at lower left: 5 [encircled]
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