"In My Father's House ... " is an exhibition of twenty-three fine prints relating to the passion, death, and resurrection of Christ, i.e., the "Preludes to Easter." Selected from Georgetown's collections of more than 7200 fine prints, the exhibition is divided into three parts: the first, a presentation in mid-20th century iconography of the fourteen "Stations of the Cross;" the second, a further consideration of the crucifixion itself; and third, the first word of Christ's resurrection.
By way of introduction, the exhibition begins in Case #1 with the following wood engraving by the British printmaker, William E. C. Morgan:
A student of Henry Tonks at London's Slade School, Morgan won the Prix de Rome medal in 1924 in wood engraving, and its three-year scholarship to the British School in Rome. It was there in his first year that he did this engraving of the crucified Christ dying in a rural landscape in the Italian hill country. Note that he peopled it with a traveler on horseback riding off in the distance to a neighboring town, a farmer plowing his field, with another talking to the print's lone woman while keeping an eye on his pigs, and a kneeling monk tending to the needs of a man fallen ill, all going about their normal activities, oblivious to the momentous drama playing out in their midst-a phenomenon which will turn up again in the last print in Part II of the exhibition.
