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Portrait of Cyrus

Maker

(artist)
1532-1603

(printmaker)
1560-1618

(publisher)
1560-1618

Title

Portrait of Cyrus

Dimensions

Height: 22.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2557

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




Cyrus
















Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: within image, upper: “CYRVS / MAIOR. //”; within image, lower: “Mart. de Vos invent. Adrian Collaert sculp. et excud. //”; lower margin: “Me tentarat avus vis natum ext tinguere : contra / Ejus in exitium blandae aluere ferae. / Sic erat in fatis; sibi quo servare putarat, / Hoc ipso vt Persis traderet imperium. //”.

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