MAGIC PORTAL, SAINT CLEMENT’S, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, US Print - Limited Edition of 10

Title: MAGIC PORTAL, SAINT CLEMENT’S IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, US I used one zinc plate (eight-inches wide by ten inches high; 20.32cm by 25.40cm) to create this work, which is the overall size of the image; the print measures 14 inches wide by 15 inches high (about 36cm x 38.1cm). Media include a blend of oil-based inks on Stonehenge paper (color-fawn). THIS PRICE INCLUDES: THE MATTED ETCHING IN AN ARCHIVAL MAT; A FRAME (16 inch x 20 inch, Type – Glass & Wood Edge / Semi-Ornate Style, Color - Gold); ALL HANDLING COSTS; SHIPMENT COSTS; CARDBOARD SHIPMENT CARTON; BUBBLE WRAP & OTHER PACKING MATERIALS; AND, A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY. The work is wired and ready to hang. Framing includes a brown craft paper backing. A wall hook and nail are included. NOTES: St Clement’s Anglican Catholic church, located on the South west corner of 20th and Cherry Streets, was designed by the distinguished Philadelphia architect John Notman (who also designed St. Mark’s Church on Locust Street and the Church of the Holy Trinity on Rittenhouse Square. Notman collaborated with Napoleon Le Brun, an associate architect for the Philadelphia Roman Catholic Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul on Logan Square. St. Clement’s was built entirely of brownstone. Mostly fields surrounded the church when the cornerstone was laid in 1861. Few houses existed nearby, and large open lots encircled the ground that had been secured for the church. The city's grid of streets had hardly expanded westward as far as 20th Street, and there was no City Hall in the Center Square. The Pennsylvania Railroad Terminal was located at 11th and Market Streets, and there was a covered wooden bridge over the Schuylkill River. The Civil War Era Church was consecrated on April 12, 1864, after three years of construction. St. Clement’s is a mystical place and is noted for both it’s ‘Lady Chapel” and “The Shrine of Our Lady of Clemency”. The later was consecrated in March 1943 and designed by Wilfred Anthony, a renowned New York architect. The woodwork was built by the Mastery Wood Craft Co. of New York, with Henry Beretta as the sculptor. Robert Robbins did the gilding and painting. Our Lady is shown “clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars,” as S. John was privileged to see her in Heaven (Revelation 12.1). The Goddess-like figure of Mary stands six feet in height and rests on a polychromed pedestal of octagonal build. Two hand wrought candle rings, made by the Ferro Studios of New York surround the base. From behind the figure, highly burnished rays of glory radiate in the shape of a great vesica. Above the statue is a deep valance of delicate wood carving, gilded and painted in mediæval Gothic colours, and surmounted by a tall spire of open woodwork. The overall height of the Shrine is approximately twenty-five feet. During festal seasons, the image is clothed in antique lace and a white damask mantle. Saint Clement's is an Anglican Church (Episcopal) in the High Tradition.

Printmaking:Aquatint on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:10

Size:16 W x 20 H x 1 D in

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