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Print

1642-1665 (made)
Artist/Maker
Jean Ganiere (engraver)
Artemisia Gentileschi (artist)
Stent, Peter (publisher)
Place of origin
Great Britain (printed)

A memento mori depicting a child asleep beside a skull.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Copies and Facsimilies
Death
Object type
Print
Materials and techniques
Engraving and stipple engraving on paper
Paper
Engraving
Stipple
Brief description
Print published by Peter Stent, impression of an engraving by Jean Ganiere after a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, depicting a child asleep beside a skull, engraving and stipple engraving, Great Britain, 1642-65
Physical description
A memento mori depicting a child asleep beside a skull.
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 15.4cm
  • Cut to width: 21.6cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1991
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'P Stent excud.' (Lettered)
  • 'Fix this rare Emblem on thy Closet Dore, Death is a Haven, to which all winds drive, Be therefore wise, that when thy Corps shall lie And be in love with Vanity no more. And where at last each Mortall must Arrive at Anchor, thus, thy Soule may mount on high.' (Lettered)
  • (With the mark of the collection of H. Fussli & Cie (Lugt 1008) on the back)
Object history
This print is an impression of an engraving dating from 1640 by Ganiere presumably after a work by Gentileschi.
Subjects depicted
Death
Mortality
Memento Mori
Child
Skull
Collectors' Marks
Bibliographic references
  • Globe, Alexander. Peter Stent, London printseller, circa 1642-1665 : being a catalogue raisonné of his engraved prints and books. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1985. 268pp, illus. ISBN: 0774802219.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1991
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1769-1991

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Record createdMarch 2, 2009
Record URL
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