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Samuel Wesley

Maker

(artist)
1700-1799

Title

Samuel Wesley

Medium

etching, black ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 12.5 cm
Width: 8.7 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3909

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: Plate, Recto: lower centre margin, black ink: In's own defense the Author writes / Because while this foul Maggot bites / He nere Can rest in quiet / Which makes him make soe sad a face / Heed beg your sorhip or your Grace / Unisght unseen to buy it. Sheet, Recto: upper centre margin, pencil: Samuel Wesley. Poet; lower centre margin, pencil: Samuel Wesley, poet.

Stamp: Sheet, Recto: upper right margin, black ink stamp: WITT / LIBRARY; lower right corner, blue ink stamp: M

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