print
- Museum number
- 1907,0326.31
- Title
- Object: The candle is lighted, we cannot blow out
- Description
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Portrait of Luther writing seated at table surrounded by reformers in two rows behind; cardinal, devil, pope and monk in the foreground trying to blow out the candle of protestantism placed in the centre. c.1640
Etching
- Production date
- 1640 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 260 millimetres
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Width: 373 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of many versions of a famous composition of the Protestant Reformers first found in the XVIIc: for another see 1877,1208.325. See Sheila O'Connell, 'The Popular Print in England', BM 1999, cat. 5.3, pp. 131-132; P.Tudor-Craig in 'Art Re-Formed' edited by T.Hamling and R.L.Williams, 2007, pp.87-102 and M.Jones 'The Print in Early Modern England: An Historical Oversight', New Haven and London, 2010, pp.162-163, especially footnote 12.
Jones suggests that Cornelis Danckertsz the Younger of Amsterdam (1561-1634) was the engraver of this print.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2017 Sept- Nov: London BM, G90a, Luther
- Acquisition date
- 1907
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1907,0326.31