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Faith

Faith

William Wynne Ryland (English, 1732–1783)
Maria Anna Angelica Kauffman (Swiss, 1741–1807)
1776
Medium/TechniqueStipple engraving printed in two colors, rubbed in one plate (yellow added by hand)
DimensionsSheet: 27.2 × 21.2 cm (10 11/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 23 × 18.6 cm (9 1/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession numberK242
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsAt lower left border of roundel, in plate: Angelica Kauffman Pinxt. At lower right border of roundel, in plate: Wm. Wynne Ryland Sculpt. At lower center, in plate: Faith / For Modes of Faith let graceless Zealots fight; / His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. / Pope At lower center, in plate: Publish'd April 2nd. 1776, by W. W. Ryland, Engraver to his Majesty, No. 159, Strand London. Verso, in graphite: H18181 ws / 115. Verso, in graphite: A [?] / 570 [?]ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA.

NOTE: Koehler was the first print curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.