Portrait of a man
Maker
Nicholas Lockey (artist)
active ca. 1600-1624 (Life dates)
active ca. 1600-1624 (Life dates)
Title
Portrait of a man
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
Height: 18.2 cm
Width: 11.6 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
Keywords
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) //
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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