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Sir Thomas Urquhart

Maker

(artist)
active 1634-1652 (Life dates)

(engraver)
active 1634-1652 (Life dates)

(publisher)
1778-1812

Title

Sir Thomas Urquhart

Date of Production

30.4.1794

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Height: 16.6 cm
Width: 12.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4297

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: upper within the image: Sr Thomas Urchard Knight

Inscription: Recto: centre left within image, printed: For Armes / and Artes

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner within image, printed: G Glover ad vivum delineavit 1646

Inscription: Recto: printed lower margin, printed: Of him, (?) shape this Picture hath design'd, / Vertue, and laerning, represent the mind. W. S / Pub.d April 30.th 1794 by W. Richardson Castle St. Leicester Square.

Inscription: Recto: lower mount, typed: Urchard (or Urquhart), Sir Thomas. / Drawn from life by G. Glover, 1646. / CHIEFLY known as the author of a spirited translation of Rabe- / lais. There is a quarto book of epigrams by him published in 1641. / The most singularly curious of all his performances, however, is "The / Discovery of a most exquisite Jewel, found in the Kennel of Worcester / Streets the Day after the Fight," &c. 8vo, 1652. It contains chiefly / the praises of such Scotsmen as have been famous in arms and arts since / the year 1600.

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

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