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Reverend Curles
Maker
1600-1699
(engraver)
active 1625-1640 (Life dates)
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Width: 15.9 cm
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collage
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Inscriptions
Inscription: inscription : printed : within image around insignia : : HONI.SOIT / QVI.MAL.Y.PENSE
Inscription: inscription : printed : lower left margin & recto : : Conf[colon] 1632. / Are to be sold by / William Peake. //
Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right margin & recto : : Ob[colon] 1647. / T. Cecill scul. //
Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre margin & recto : : Some happy hand may thus aspire to saue / From Deaths defeate thy feature [colon] But, to grave / Thy Gravity, what Diamonds poynt? t'expresse / Thy Learning, Meekenesse, Wisdome, Holynesse, / What a Seraphyique plume would it require. / Timanthes, draw thy vayle heere, Art, retire. / He that can Reuerend Curles perfections cut / In eight lines, carues an Iliad in a nut. //
Inscription: inscription : pencil : upper centre mount & recto : later Witt inscription : : [illegible] //
Inscription: inscription : pencil : lower centre mount & recto : later Witt inscription : : British School //
Inscription: inscription : stamped : upper right mount & verso : later Witt inscription : : WITT / LIBRARY //
Inscription: inscription : stamped : lower right mount & verso : later Witt inscription : : M //
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