The Likeness Of Christ: Being An Inquiry Into The Verisimilitude Of The Received Likeness Of Our Blessed Lord. By The Late Thomas Heaphy. Edited By Wyke Bayliss, F.S.A.
London:: David Bogue, 3, St. Martin's Place, W.C., 1880.
Physical Description
[10], 78, [2] p., [12] pl. (incl. frontis.): illus; 448 mm. (Folio.)
Contents
[Half-t., frontis. (= pl. [1]), t.p.] - Preface (by Wyke Bayliss) - Contents - List Of Plates - [Text and pl.]; [colophon] - [Publisher's advertisement].
Responsibility Note
No plate is signed.
The text printer is named in the colophon: 'Chiswick Press: - Charles Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.' [In 1880 the Chiswick Press was taken over by publisher George Bell.]
References
M. Büchsel, Die Entstehung des Christus porträts (2003); I. Wilson, Holy faces, secret places (1991); R. Warland, Das Brustbild Christi (1986); G. Stuhlfauth, Die "ältesten Porträts" Christi (1918).
A study of T.F. Heaphy appears in P.G. Nunn, 'The other Heaphys', Bulletin of New Zealand art history, 14 (1993), pp.3-8. On Wyke Bayliss see his own Olives: the reminiscences ... (1906).
Summary Note
The work first appeared in the Art Journal in 1861.
The text is in eight chapters: 1. Introduction; 2. Portraits From The Christian Cemeteries; 3. Portraits From The Catacombs. Frescoes; 4. Frescoes From The Catacombs; 5. Early Greek Works; 6. Enamels And Metal Work; 7. Mosaics From The Catacombs; 8. Mosaics From The Churches.
The plates are uncaptioned, but are described in the List Of Plates as: 1. Mosaic from the church of S. Pudenziana; 2-5. Cloths from St. Peter's, S. Bartolomeo (Genoa), Vatican, S. Silvestro; 6. Metal and enamel from S. Maria in Trastevere; 7, 8. Mosaic from Roman catacombs; 9-12. Mosaics from the baptistery of Constantine, churches of S. Paul, SS. Cosimo and Damian, S. Prassede. All are colour-printed plates, tipped in.
In 1898 appeared Wyke Bayliss's own Rex regum, a more elaborate study of the iconography of Christ.
Provenance
The title page is inscribed in ink, 'Presented To The Library Of The Royal Academy of Arts The Author having been a "Life Medal" Student of the Schools. April 18th 1882.' The donor was the author's widow (see RA Annual Report for 1882, p. 48). The verso of the front free-endpaper is inscribed in pencil, 'J.E.H.', i.e. John Evan Hodgson, librarian of the Royal Academy 1882-95.
Binding Note
19th-century red morocco, upper and lower covers having gilt-stamped ruled borders, upper cover lettered 'The Likeness Of Christ'; gilt-decorated spine, lettered 'The Likeness Of Christ Heaphy'/
Christian art and symbolism - Iconography - History
Portraits - Paintings, Roman - Frescoes - Mosaics, Roman - Catacombs - Churches - Italy - Rome - History
Art history - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Color printing - Great Britain - 19th century