Print made by Simon Gribelin, 1662–1733, French, active in Britainafter Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 1577–1640, Flemish
Title:
The Ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall: The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland
Date:
1720
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 7/8 × 18 3/16 inches (32.7 × 46.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "Grav'd by Sim; Gribelin from the Painting of Sr, P. P. RUBENS on the Cieling | in the Banqueting=house at WHITE=HALL, in the year 1720. CUM PRIVIL: DEFUNC: ANNÆREGIN: | This Cieling represents in proper and curious Emblems, the prosperous state of Great Britain in the Reign | of King James the Ist. His Concern for Religion, his Love of Arts and Sciences, the Birth of a Prince, the | Union of the two Kingdoms, and his Majesty's most Eminent Virtues Crown'd with Glory and Immortality."; lower center, within banner: "SEMPER EADEM"; lower center, within oval: "HONI · SOIT · QUI · MAL · Y · PENSE ·"; lower right: "Æri incidit Sim; Gribelin ad Tabluas P. P. RUBENS Eq: Aur: in Laqueari Aulæ | Regiæ epulis Sacræ de WHITE=HALL, Londini Anno Dni. MDCCXX. et Excudit. | In hisce Tabulis Pax et Copia se mutuo amplexæ, Res Britannicas, regnant Jacobo Io., Filio Regi recens nato. | conjunctisque sub unius Imperio Angliæ Scotiæque Regnis, maxime floruisse testantur. His, plurimisque | aliis beneficiis, Rex de Religione, de bonis Artibus, et de Patriâ bene meritus Coelo, et Immortalitate donator."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection