Not angles, but angels - Antique steel engraving - After K Halswelle
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Title: Not angles, but angels / Non Angli sed Angeli
Artist: after Keeley Halswelle
Engraver: James Charles Armytage (c.1802–1897).
Description: antique steel engraving.
Production date: 1877.
Size: 32x22,3 cms.
In good condition.
Background: The title comes from the well-known remark attributed to Gregory the Great, who, apparently, was much taken with the beauty of some English children being offered for sale on the streets of Rome. According to the Venerable Bede, the evangelisation of the southern English was proposed by a Pope with a pun. In his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the story goes that Pope Gregory I was walking through the market of Rome when he saw some slave boys with striking looks and hair. What people, he asked, did they come from? They are Angles, he was told; to which the pontiff replied, they are not Angles, but angels! (‘Non Angli sed angeli’) And, like angels, they should sing praises to God.
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Title: Not angles, but angels / Non Angli sed Angeli
Artist: after Keeley Halswelle
Engraver: James Charles Armytage (c.1802–1897).
Description: antique steel engraving.
Production date: 1877.
Size: 32x22,3 cms.
In good condition.
Background: The title comes from the well-known remark attributed to Gregory the Great, who, apparently, was much taken with the beauty of some English children being offered for sale on the streets of Rome. According to the Venerable Bede, the evangelisation of the southern English was proposed by a Pope with a pun. In his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the story goes that Pope Gregory I was walking through the market of Rome when he saw some slave boys with striking looks and hair. What people, he asked, did they come from? They are Angles, he was told; to which the pontiff replied, they are not Angles, but angels! (‘Non Angli sed angeli’) And, like angels, they should sing praises to God.