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Abelard

Print
1807 (published)
Artist/Maker
Adam Buck (artist)
Freeman, Samuel (engraver)
Stadler, Joseph Constantine (engraver)
Holland, William (publisher)
Place of origin
London (published)

Coloured print of the monk Abelard


Object details

Categories
Portraits
Prints
Religion
Men's Clothes
Object type
Print
TitleAbelard (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Stipple and aquatint
Stipple
Brief description
Print, 'Abelard', Freeman and Stadler, after Buck, 1807.
Physical description
Coloured print of the monk Abelard
Dimensions
  • Image height: 210mm
  • Image width: 164mm
  • Platemark height: 257mm
  • Platemark width: 196mm
  • Sheet height: 395mm
  • Sheet width: 275mm
Style
19th
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
  • ABELARD
  • Buck del.
  • Published Nov'r 20 1807, by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, London.
  • Freeman Stadler sculp.
  • What cannot letters inspire? They have souls, they can speak, they have all the fire of our passions, they have all the softness / and delicacy of speech, and sometimes a boldness of expression even beyond it. Let me have a faithful account of / all that concerns you. I would know every thing, be it ever so unfortunate. Perhaps, by mingling my sighs with yours / I may make your sufferings less: if that observation be true, that all sorrows divided are made lighter / Heloise to Abelard
Credit line
Bequeathed by Alfred Thomas West
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2618-1930

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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