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Frontispiece

Maker

(artist)
ca. 1746-1794 (Life dates)

(engraver)
1761-1802

I & J Taylor (publisher)

Title

Frontispiece

Date of Production

1795

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.9 cm
Width: 17.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3993.1

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

Recto: Above the image, top centre, printed in black ink: "FRONTISPIECE.". Within the image, top centre margin, within a scroll around a crown, printed in black ink: "HONI / SOIT QUI MAL Y / PENSE"; on the left, within a picture frame, printed in black ink: "ANTIENT / MONUMEN(word unfinished) / and / NATURAL / HISTORY / OF / NORTH / BRITAIN"; lower margin, within a scroll around a globe, printed in black ink: "NEMO ME / IMPUNE / LA CESS ET. / SCENERY & ANTIQUITIES / of NORTH BRITAIN.". Below the image, printed in black ink: "Cordiner pinxt. / P. Mazell Sculpt. / LONDON Published by I & J TAYLOR, High Holborn MDCCXCV.". Upper left margin, later Witt inscription, handwritten in graphite: "925/30/18".

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