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Mrs Hester Tradescant

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

(engraver)
1600-1699

Title

Mrs Hester Tradescant

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 14.8 cm
Width: 9.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3897

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: inscription : printed : with oval around frame : : [erased and illegible] //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre margin & recto : : Mrs Hester Tradescant / from an Original Picture in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford / In 1622 Elias Ashmole preferred a bill in Chancery ag.t Mrs Tradescant to recover her / late husbands museum. In 1664 the Cause came to a hearing. In 1674 Mr Tradescant / delivered up the Collection pursuant to a decree in Chancery [ampersand] April 1678 / she was found drown'd in her Pond at Lambeth //

Inscription: inscription : stamped : upper right mount & recto : later Witt inscription : : WITT / LIBRARY //

Inscription: inscription : stamped : lower right mount & recto : later Witt inscription : : M //

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