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Portrait of Willaim (Guilielmus) Butler

Maker

(artist)
1595-1647

(engraver)
1595-1647

Title

Portrait of Willaim (Guilielmus) Butler

Date of Production

1620

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 31 cm
Width: 24.1 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.1932

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: recto, lower margin: When now the Fates gan wonder, that their thrids / Were so oft tied againe, halfe cut i't'h' mids / And Charon wanting his usd Naulu, sware, / He now a day's did want of many a fare, / They all conspire, and found at last, that it / Was skillfull Butler, who mens lives could knit / All most untied; they kill'd him, and yet feared / That he from death, by death, would ghosts have reard. //

Inscription: recto, lower right: Are to be folde by / Compton Holland //

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