Portrait of Willaim (Guilielmus) Butler
Maker
(artist)
1595-1647
(engraver)
1595-1647
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
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
Keywords
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 //
Inscription: recto, lower right: Are to be folde by / Compton Holland //
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