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Portrait of a man
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active ca. 1600-1624 (Life dates)
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Width: 11.6 cm
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Inscription: Recto: upper centre, manuscript pencil: John(?) [illegible] B g London.
Recto: curving around the figure, within image: JOHANIS KING / EPISCOPI LONDIN. est / VERA EFFIG: REVE [?] / EMI DOMINI.
Inscription: Recto: lower left, within image: So here his shade whose subftace is divine; / Like God, in all that may his Angell fitt; / Whole light, before Men, like a lampe, doth fhyne; / The Oyle of Grace and learning feeding it: / Yet, like a lampe, that others light doth gieve, / Still wast's the Oyle by which him felf doth lieve..
Inscription: Recto: lower right, within image: See thy true fhadowe (Nature) and fuppose / How much thy Subftance is belov'd of Harts, / O Cunning, if thy Mirror could difclose / His heavenly Formes, of Zeale, Religion, Arts; / This Picture, might exactlie fhewe in Hym. / Each vertue done to Life for each dead Lym..
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, within image: Nicola Lockey pinx fieri curavit et Simon Pafsieus Fculpsit.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, manuscript pencil: Nicolas Lockey.
Inscription: Verso: upper left, manuscript pencil: 937/29(12).
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