Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Saint Catherine.
Call Number
A West 23/Drawer 14/GC096/Half Folio GA 2014.00017
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcgf06gg54t
Publisher
Venice : [s.n.], 1731/03/25.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1731
Extent
1 item ; print 40.5 x 33 cm. sheet 54 x 38.5 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]
Papastratou 406
Deluga, Waldemar and Zych, Iwona. Greek Church Prints, Print Quarterly 19, no. 2 (June 2002): pp. 123-135.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Unidentified Artist [engraver]
Medium: Engravings
Depiction: Icon representing St. Catherine at the breaking wheel.
Item description: Among the earliest known religious prints produced for circulation in the Orthodox East. All known impressions are faint due to ink quality.
Inscribed in plate: Top of scene, "Psalletai kata ten Timioteran / Echei toson pneuma ho ouranos soma de to theion, tethesauristai en Sina haima martyriou, en Alexandroupolei sophe Aikaterina sosze tous doulous sou"; Unfolded scroll, "Chaiere pansophe parthene Ekaterina"; Bottom of the scene, "To Panierotato Logiotato kai Hagiotato hemon Authente kai Despote Archiepiskopo tou Hagiou kai Theovadistou Orous Sina, kai Raithou, / k[yri]o k[yri]o syn te hagia autou Sunaxei, ho tapeinos doulos Emmanouel tou Balase Neochoritou to paron aphieronei eis timen tou / Hagiou Monasteriou Enetiesin etei [alpha psi lambda alpha] Martiou ke".

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).
Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint—Art
Saints in art
Chatzekyriakes
Martyrs in art
Torture in art
Art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4d6ff46a-475a-4924-b14c-f5701d61ac63/manifest