Print Description
These five prints show a view on the customs among the Lutherans of Augsburg. Top: In St. Anne’s Church in Augsburg, a new minister is blessed by the laying on of hands. Center left: A new minister is installed in the Church of St. James in Augsburg. Center right: Children receive catechism from a minister in the Minorite Church in Augsburg. Bottom left: A minister hears confessions in St. Anne’s Church in Augsburg. Bottom right: A minister pronounces absolution on the congregation in St. Anne’s Church in Augsburg.
Made by Bernard Picart after Caterine Sperling Heckel.
Medium: Engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: yes.
Sheet size: 27 x 41 cm (10.63 x 16.14 inch). Image size: 20.6 x 10 cm. (8.11 x 3.94 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Brown in right. Remains of soiling. Creases. Small tear restored in right margin and above. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
LUTHERAN CUSTOMS-RELIGION-MINISTER INSTALLED-CATECHISM-ABSOLUTION | RBOS-A10-15
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This print was published in Amsterdam ca 1720.
Biography engraver: Bernard Picart (1673-1733) .
Biography artist: Catharina Sperling-Heckel (10 April 1699 – 28 May 1741) was a German miniature painter, etcher and engraver.
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