The Ship of the Church
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1590
name: label: Artist
content: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
label: Client
content: Luigi Alamanni, Italian, 1558–1603
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: View of a large ship to a port. The ship is filled with people. Christ appears seated in the stern, with the dove of the Holy Spirit rising above his head. Onlookers line the shore, while others row towards the ship in several small boats. In the sky above, angels sit on clouds and blow trumpets.
label: Description
content: Verso: Italian inscription.
place: label: made in
content: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-134
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Recto: pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black washes over black chalk on laid paper Verso: pen and brown ink on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 10.7 × 14.5 cm (4 3/16 × 5 11/16 in.)