{"id":11312,"date":"2019-12-06T15:41:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T20:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=11312"},"modified":"2019-12-06T15:41:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T20:41:18","slug":"paul-reveres-buried-with-him-by-baptism-c-1770s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/paul-reveres-buried-with-him-by-baptism-c-1770s\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit | Paul Revere&#8217;s <em>Buried with Him by Baptism<\/em>, c.1770s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"424\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/12\/PRevere-unfolda.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/12\/PRevere-unfolda.jpg 424w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/12\/PRevere-unfolda-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><figcaption>BUL Special Collections, Drowne Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Thought to be designed and engraved by Revere, this print depicts the baptism of Christ, by full immersion.&nbsp; John the Baptist is shown holding Jesus in the Jordan River.&nbsp; Interpreted as the 12 Apostles watch from the bank while two pairs of angels on clouds flank the top corners.&nbsp; A sun with mirrored Hebrew lettering (Tetragrammaton) from which two rays of light emanate, a dove on left and on right the words \u201cThis is my beloved Son \u2013hear ye him\u201d, or scripture Luke 9:35 from the Christian Holy Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 5 known original prints of this plate.&nbsp; Found inside a medical book at Brown University in 2012, the rare illustration was part of a donation by physician Solomon Drowne, Brown class of 1773.&nbsp; Among the surviving engravings, paper and sheet size vary; the Brown University Library copy on laid paper demonstrates the plate print slightly askew.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Exhibit Dates<\/strong>: December 5, 2019 &#8211; January 31<em>,<\/em> 2020<br><strong>Exhibit Time<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/hay\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">John Hay Library Hours<\/a><br><strong>Exhibit Location<\/strong>: Second Floor Landing, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect&nbsp;Street, Providence  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought to be designed and engraved by Revere, this print depicts the baptism of Christ, by full immersion.&nbsp; John the Baptist is shown holding Jesus in the Jordan River.&nbsp; Interpreted as the 12 Apostles watch from the bank while two pairs of angels on clouds flank the top corners.&nbsp; A sun with mirrored Hebrew lettering <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/paul-reveres-buried-with-him-by-baptism-c-1770s\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Exhibit | Paul Revere&#8217;s &lt;em&gt;Buried with Him by Baptism&lt;\/em&gt;, c.1770s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,5,34,6,35,8,155,10,20,1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-exhibits-events","category-exhibits-events-special-collections","category-featured-resources","category-general-interest","category-hay","category-home-page","category-josiah-carberry","category-special-collections","category-uncategorized","category-uncategorized-special-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}