Saint Francis Xavier, holding a crucifix, is preaching to a group of people during one of his missions in India. Engraving by G. Edelinck after J. Sourley.

  • Sourley, Jérôme.
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1600-1699
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563349i
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Saint Francis Xavier, holding a crucifix, is preaching to a group of people during one of his missions in India. Engraving by G. Edelinck after J. Sourley. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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"En habits sacerdotaux, l'apôtre des lndes prêche la foi au bord de la mer, en tenant un crucifix de la main droite élevée. On lit sur la terrasse, à gauche : F. Poilly excudit C. P. R. et dans la marge: Nos autem praedicamus Christum crucifixum. Cor. Sourley inuenit F. Poilly ex. cum priuil. Regis A Paris rue St Jacques à l'image S.t Benoist G. Edelinck sculpsit."—Robert-Dumesnil, loc. cit.

Publication/Creation

[Paris] : F. Poilly excudit. C.P.R.

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1 print : engraving ; image 42.6 x 35.5 cm

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Nos autem praedicamus Christum crucifixum Cor. Potentissimo excellentissimoque Domino Domino François de Bonne, de Créquy &c. Duci de Lesdiguières, Pari Franciae, et in Delphinatu Proregi. Hieronimus Sourley inventor et pictor devotissimus cliens D.D.

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[Robert-Dumesnil's state IV].

References note

A.P.F. Robert-Dumesnil, Le peintre-graveur français, vol. 6, Paris 1844, p. 194, Gérard Edelinck no. 30
Roger-Armand Weigert, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet des estampes, tome IV, Paris 1961, p. 62, G. Edelinck no. 354 ("S. François-Xavier, d'après H. Sourley. Excudit de F. de Poilly. H. 0m472 X L. 0m353."; Robert-Dumesnil's states 1, 2, and 3)

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Wellcome Collection 563349i

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