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Portrait of a man

Maker

Nicholas Lockey (artist)
active ca. 1600-1624 (Life dates)

Title

Portrait of a man

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 18.2 cm
Width: 11.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4718

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

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower left & recto : within image : So here his shade whose substace is divine; / Like God, in all that may his Angell fitt; / Whole light, before men, like a lampe, doth shyme; / 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 self doth lieve //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right margin & recto : within image : See thy true shadow (Nature) and suppose / How much thy Substance is belov'd of Harts, / O Cunning, if thy Mirror could disclose / His heavenly Formes, of Zeale, Religion, Arts, / This Picture, might exactlie shewe in Hym. / Each vertue done to life for each dead Lym. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre margin & recto : within image : Nicola Lockey pinx fieri curavit et Simon Palsieus(?) Sculpsit //

Inscription: inscription : manuscript pencil : upper centre & recto : : ? ? B g London //

Inscription: inscription : manuscript pencil : upper centre & recto : : Nicolas Lockey //

Inscription: inscription : manuscript pencil : upper left & verso : : 937/29(12) //

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