6454B

The Company of the Damned

Artist: Isidro Paulino
Title: The Company of the Damned
Date: 1814
Medium: Engraving. Published in Ang infiernong na carucas. Sampaloc, Manila: Imprenta del Convento de N.S. de Loreto, 1814. This is a Tagalog translation, by Paul Klein (Pablo Clain) S.J. (1652-1717), of Giovanni Pietro Pinamonti S.J. (1632-1703) L'Inferno aperto al cristiano perche non v'entri[.] It was originally published in 1713, where the engraving was signed Fr. Placidus O. Min. sculpsit —presumably a reference to Fr. Placidus de Valcio (née Placyd Walczak) (1662-1728). It was republished in 1841 and 1886, the latter in Guadalupe, Cebu City, at the Imprenta del Asilo de los Huérfanos.
Location: Antigua Imprenta del Convento de Nuestra Señora de Loreto, Sampaloc District, City of Manila, Philippines.
Photo Source: Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs 1998, 210.
Correspondence Credit: Almerindo Ojeda
Item: 6454B