Item Summary

Large double-sheet engraved broadside, upper sheet with engraving, lower sheet with engraved cartouche containing letterpress text. An imposing two-sheet illustrated broadside announcing the defense of a doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Theology of the Sorbonne. This huge thesis print was designed by the prolific Paris artist François Boucher and published by a printmaker who specialized in the production of thesis prints. Copies would have been posted on a wall of the Sorbonne to announce the candidate's public defense of his thesis.The engravings could be used interchangeably for different thesis broadsides.

Descriptive Information

Title
Quaestio theologica: Quis de tenebris nos vocavit in admirabile lumen suum? I. Petrus, 3.9.
Call Number
A South 05/Drawer 08/GC179/Elephant Folio GA 2022.00048
Identifier
ark:/88435/dctm70n8900
Publisher
Paris : Robert Hecquet, 1769.
Language
Latin
Date Created
1769
Format
Visual material
Extent
1 broadside ; letterpress with engraved illustration ; 123.8 x 91.8 cm
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Dissertation subject: “Quis de tenebris nos vocavit in admirabile lumen suum?", from I Peter c. 2.v. 9 “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people”.
Signed: “Boucher pinx,” and “Hecquet excudit,” at the bottom of the top sheet.

Discovery Information

Subject
Bible Peter, 1st
Advertising—France—History—Early works to 1800
Theology—France—History—Early works to 1800
Universities and colleges—France—History—Early works to 1800
Symbolism in art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5eacb73b-43e9-4cce-ad46-38849f298154/manifest