889350
- TitleSt Simeon Stylites, engraved wood block, 1925 / Raymond Herbert McGrath
- Creator
- Call numberR 370
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
1925 - Type of material
- Reference code889350
- Physical Description1 printing block - wood
- Access Conditions
Access via appointment - Description source
Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010 - General note
Woodcut print is at SV*/ART/86
Transferred from Drawer 52
Subject Keywords:
Simeon, Stylites Saint, d. 459
Christian saints - Syria
Stylites were Christian ascetics who withdrew to the top of a pillar in order to lead strictly penitential and solitary lives. 'Their earliest and most famous representative was Simeon Stylites (ca. 390 - 459). He was a native of Cilicia and became a hermit near Antioch.. ' [he retired to the platform of a pillar, the height of which he gradually raised to 72ft.]
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