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The Right Honourable Robert Lord Brooke

Maker

(artist)
1700-1799

Title

The Right Honourable Robert Lord Brooke

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Height: 20 cm
Width: 14.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3730

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: upper centre margin, printed: The Right Hon.ble Robert Lord Brooke Baron of Beauch: court etc

Inscription: Recto: lower right margin, printed: To king & country, late a pretious peare / A prop, a pillor, for the truth most cleare/ That only ayme, that marke still did hee eye / but now hee's gone, to truth itself on hie.

Inscription: Recto: lower left margin, printed: Though hee't blest cannan us desir'd us to see/ from all our bondage, ty wee mite be free; / At this most murmer, worse then Israell / They gainst moses our's gainst Christ rebell .

Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, printed: England for this great Losse and Floodes of Teares fill thou full Brookes of sin repenting Teares.

Inscription: Recto: upper right mount, handwritten in pencil: In E. Spencer's

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