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John Howson

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

(engraver)
1601-after 1650 (Life dates)

(publisher)

Title

John Howson

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Height: 21.5 cm
Width: 15.8 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3764

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: centre within image, in oval frame around the figure, printed: Effigies Reuerendi in Christo Patris Domini Iohannis Howsoni Episcopi Dunelmensis .

Inscription: Recto: lower centre within image, on the parapet before the sitter, printed: Epis: Oxon. conf: 1618. / Dunelmen 1628 / Obijt. 1631/2

Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin & recto, printed: What this Apelles heere hath drawne to the Eye / this Reverend Peice [sic] of Honourd Grauitye / Betters not Him, but us, that hence may loarne [?] / the Churches and Religions Bayes to earne.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, printed: Martin Bro Sculp / Are to be sould by William Peake.

Inscription: Recto: upper centre margin, handwritten in pencil: John Howsoni B. or Durham

Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, handwritten in pencil: British School / M. Droeshout sculpsit

Stamp: Recto: upper right corner mount, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY

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