{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O653438"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O653438/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2010EG8513/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2010EG8513/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2010EG8513","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O653438/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O653438","accessionNumber":"20286","objectType":"Print","titles":[{"title":"Pinacotheca Hamptoniana","type":"series title"},{"title":"The Death of Ananias","type":"popular title"},{"title":"Raphael Cartoons","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"This image represents the moment when Ananias is struck down and dies after lying to Saint Peter about the proportion of money he is donating to the Church.  \r\n\r\nThis print is in reverse of the cartoon from which it is derived. The so-called Raphael Cartoons are seven full size designs for tapestries by the great Italian Renaissance artist Raphael (1483-1520). They illustrate passages from the Bible concerning the lives of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. None of them is smaller than ten feet high by thirteen feet wide. They belong to Her Majesty the Queen and have been on loan to this museum since 1865. The earliest print relating to the Raphael Cartoons dates from 1516, the year in which Raphael received final payment for the commission. It inaugurates an extraordinary case study in the history of printmaking, stretching over more than four hundred and fifty years and across a wide range of printmaking techniques. This print is in reverse of the cartoon.\r\n\r\nNicholas Dorigny's prints were the subject of an editorial in the 'Spectator' on the 19th November 1711. \"These invaluable pieces are very justly in the Hands of the greatest and most pious sovereign in the World; and cannot be the frequent object of every one at their own leisure; but an engraver is to a painter, what a printer is to an author it is worthy Her Majesty's name, that she has encouraged that noble artist Monsieur Dorigny to publish these works of Raphael.\" Writing in 1722 about the works of Raphael in Rome, Jonathan Richardson said \"That I should write upon what I never saw may appear strange to some; Such may please only to obeserve that My remarks are chiefly upon the way of thinking itself.\"\r\n\r\nThe engraver and antiquarian George Vertue had met and spoken with Dorigny. Vertue records that \"several gentlemen of note travelling to Rome there found Mr Dorigny who was then in the highest reputation for several engraved works after Raphael. These got him justly the reputation of the first engraver in Europe for which reason several Curious persons persuaded & engaged him to come to England to undertake those Famous Cartons at Hampton Court painted by Raphael...From his coming to England [in 1711] I may justly date the rise of the reputation of the engraving.\" According to George Vertue, Dorigny acknowledged trying to imitate the great French engraver Gérard Audran when he was studying to improve his engraving style.\r\n\r\nThe first proposal was that Dorigny engrave the Cartoons for the exclusive use of Queen Anne as presents for the nobility and visiting diplomats. Dorigny's price for the work of £4000-£5000 meant this idea was quashed and the prints were sold by subscription at four guineas a set. Dorigny was provided with limited royal patronage in the form of lodgings at Hampton Court, coals, and a bottle of wine a day.\r\n\r\nThe lettering in this set of prints is entirely in Latin underlining how they were aimed at an elite educated market. Listed are the titles, biblical quotations, details of the lcoations of the Cartoons and their sizes.\r\n\r\nQueen Anne had died while Dorigny was still at work. On the first of April 1719 Dorigny presented to King George I two sets of his newly completed prints of the Cartoons. On the 13th June 1720 Dorigny received a knighthood. He was the first of only two individuals in the history of British art to be knighted for having made particular prints. The other was Sir Robert Strange, knighted in 1787 for an engraving of Benjamin West's 'Apotheosis of the Princes Octavius and Alfred'.","physicalDescription":"Ananias lies dying on the left of the foreground. To the right a man and woman react in horror. On a raised platform in the centre background a group of men stand, Saint Peter in the middle passing judgement on Ananias. In the background left people are carrying goods or counting money and on the right a man is handing money over to one of the men on the platform. A couple leave via steps to the right of the background; over the staircase is a window through which an onlooker watches the scene. Through a square opening on the left is a landscape with tree.\n\nThis print is in reverse of the cartoon from which it is derived but is faithful in compositional detail.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Dorigny, Nicholas (Sir)","id":"A15726"},"association":{"text":"printmaker","id":"AAT25164"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Raphael","id":"A5306"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":"from a cartoon by"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"etching (printing process)","id":"AAT53241"},{"text":"engraving (printing process)","id":"AAT53225"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"etching and engraving on paper","categories":[{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"},{"text":"Religion","id":"THES48900"},{"text":"Christianity","id":"THES48978"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2010EG8513"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLE","id":"THES49657"},"free":"","case":"DR","shelf":"93","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"printed","id":"AAT53319"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1719","earliest":"1719-01-01","latest":"1719-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"ROYAL LOANS.5","id":"O1069358"},"association":"Source"},{"object":{"text":"20282","id":"O653442"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"20283","id":"O653441"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"20284","id":"O653440"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"20285","id":"O653439"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"20287","id":"O653437"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"20288","id":"O653436"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"20289","id":"O1109312"},"association":"Set"}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"53.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sheet","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"74.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sheet","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"51.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"platemark","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Raphael Sanctius Vrbinas Pinxit","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"left side of lower margin"},{"content":"Eq. Nicolaus Dorigny Gallus Del. & Sculp.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"right side of lower margin"},{"content":"ANANIAS CORRUVIT EXANIMIS.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Title lower margin, centred"},{"content":"Vir autem quidam nimine Ananias, cum Saphira uxore sua, vendidit agrum, et fraudavit de pretio agri, conscia uxore sua: et afferens quamdam partem, ad pedes Apostolorum posuit. Dixit autem Petrus: Anania, cur tentavit Satanas cortuum, mentiri te Spiritui Sancto, et fraudare / de pretio agri? Non ne manens tibi manebat, et venundatum in tua erat potestate? Quare posuisti in corde tuo hanc rem? Non es mentilus hominibus sed Deo. Audiens autem Ananias haec verba, cecidit, et expiravit. Et factus est timor magnus super omnes qui audierunt.  Act. Ap. Cap. V.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Lower margin"},{"content":"Exemplar asservatur in Palatio MAG. BRIT. REG. dicto HAMPTON-COVRT Long. ped. XVII. pol. VI. alt. ped. X1. pol. IV.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Lower margin centred below rest of text"},{"content":"5","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Plate number lower right"}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"The Death of Ananias by Sir Nicholas Dorigny (1657-1746); from a cartoon by Raphael for the tapestries in the Sistine Chapel; etching and engraving; British; originally printed 1719, a later impression.\n\nThe V&amp;A holds two other sets of the Pinacotheca Hamptoniana; see Museum No. E.656-1996 (bound volume) and Museum Nos. Dyce.2560 to Dyce.2566. ","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Dorigny, Nicholas. <u>Pinacotheca Hamptoniana</u>. London, 1719."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Miller, Liz. 'From Marcantonio Raimondi to the Postcard: Prints of the Raphael Cartoons'. Display leaflet, 1995."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Gilpin, William. <u>An Essay Upon Prints.</u>, 1768, p. 83."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Meyer, A. <u>Apostles in England: Sir James Thornhill and the Legacy of the Rapael Taspestry Cartoons</u>. Exhibition catalogue, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, 1996, pp.27-30, figs 12 and 16 [other impressions exhibited]."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Shearman, John. <u>Raphael's Cartoons in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen and the tapestries for the Sistine Chapel</u>. London, Phaidon, 1972."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Fermor, Sharon. <u>The Raphael Tapestry Cartoons: Narrative, Decoration, Design</u>. London, Scala Books in association with the Victoria and Albery Museum."}],"production":"later impression, first printed 1719","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Peter (Saint)","id":"N400"},{"text":"Ananias","id":"N12805"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"crowd scenes","id":"x35547"},{"text":"landscapes (representations)","id":"AAT15636"},{"text":"drapes","id":"AAT203770"},{"text":"Raphael Cartoons","id":"x46441"},{"text":"paving","id":"AAT11718"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":["Bible, Acts, 5, verses 3 & 5"],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Dorigny's prints were the subject of an editorial in the 'Spectator' on the 19th November 1711. \"These invaluable pieces are very justly in the Hands of the greatest and most pious sovereign in the World; and cannot be the frequent object of every one at their own leisure; but an engraver is to a painter, what a printer is to an author it is worthy Her Majesty's name, that she has encouraged that noble artist Monsieur Dorigny to publish these works of Raphael.\" Writing in 1722 about the works of Raphael in Rome, Jonathan Richardson said \"That I should write upon what I never saw may appear strange to some; Such may please only to obeserve that My remarks are chiefly upon the way of thinking itself.\"","date":{"text":"1995","earliest":"1995-01-01","latest":"1995-12-31"}}],"partNumbers":["20286"],"accessionNumberNum":"20286","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-12","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}