Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
General view of Mount Sinai.
Call Number
A South 04/Drawer 08/GC096/Elephant Folio GA 2014.00018
Identifier
ark:/88435/gx41mn85m
Publisher
Venice : [s.n.], 1727-1736.
Language
Greek
Date Created
1727
Extent
1 print ; engraving 51 x 58.6 cm. sheet 57 x 79.6 cm.
Source Acquisition
Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.
References
Papastratou, Dore. Paper Icons: Greek Orthodox Religious Engravings, 1665-1899. Athens: Papastratos; Recklinghausen: A. Bongers, 1990. [Marquand Library (SA) Oversize NE655.2 .P3713 1990q]
Papastratos 387
Deluga, Waldemar and Zych, Iwona. Greek Church Prints, Print Quarterly 19, no. 2 (June 2002): pp. 123-135.Byron,
R., and Rice, D. Talbot. The Birth of Western Painting. London, 1936, p. 191, pl. 92.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Unidentified Artist [engraver]
Medium: Engravings
Depiction: Bird's-eye view of Mount Sinai, with legend of 27 topographic features.
Item description: Among the earliest known religious prints produced for circulation in the Orthodox East.
Inscribed in plate: Upper far right, "Echei to son pneuma, ho ouranos, soma de / to theion tethesauri[s]tai en Sina haima mar/tyriou, en Alexandroupolei, sophe Ai / Katerina, skepe tous doulous sou / Eleo Theon Archiepiskopos tou hagiou kai theovadistou."
Inscribed on plate at foot, left , 'Recuperato dal Signor Michel Forro da Nausa 1736,' and, right, (in Greek), Purchased by Kyrios Michail Phorros from Naoussa in 1736.

Discovery Information

Subject
Art, Byzantine
Religious art
Christian art and symbolism—17th century
Christianity and art—Orthodox Eastern Church—In art
Icons, Byzantine
Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai).
Chatzekyriakes
Sinai, Mount (Egypt)—In art
Bird's-eye views—Egypt—Mount Sinai—1727
Landscapes—Egypt—Mount Sinai—1727
Dionysios, Sinaites, Hieromonachos, 18th century
Phorros, Micahel, ho ek Naouses

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/62c3431e-0222-4f0d-8f80-afe7daa5342f/manifest