The Right Honourable Robert Lord Brooke
Maker
(artist)
1700-1799
1700-1799
Title
The Right Honourable Robert Lord Brooke
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Height: 20 cm
Width: 14.5 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
Keywords
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
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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