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Title-page to 'The Historie of the Holy Warre' by Thomas Fuller (Cambridge, 1639)

Maker

(artist)
active ca. 1617-1650 (Life dates)

(engraver)
active ca. 1617-1650 (Life dates)

Title

Title-page to 'The Historie of the Holy Warre' by Thomas Fuller (Cambridge, 1639)

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.7 cm
Width: 16.1 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4994

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 : printed : lower left & recto : : We hope a Gaining. / Wil [colon] Marshall. Sculpsit. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right & recto : : We hope a / waining //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre & recto : : The Temple of the Sepulchre. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower left within image & recto : : I found / to myself a to others / Retreat a March / Peter / the / Hermit //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper right within image & recto : : Vestigia pauca retrorsum. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper left within image & recto : : We went out / full [colon] //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper right within image & recto : : But return / empty. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper centre within image & recto : : EU = ROPE. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper left & recto : in oval frame : NO CROWN OF GOLD WHERE CHRIST WAS CROWND WITH THORNS. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper right & recto : in oval frame : THIS BLACK SHIRT IS ALL SALADINE CONQUEROUR OF THE EAST Hath to his Grave. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper centre & recto : : THE HISTORIE / of the / HOLY WARRE. / By Tho Fuller, B.D. Prebendarie / of Sarum, late of Sidney-Coll. / in Cambridge. / John 4.21 / The houre cometh when ye shall neither in / this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem / worship the Father. / Acts 5.38. / If this counsel be of men it will / come to nought. //

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

Inscription: inscription : manuscript pencil : upper left & verso : later Witt inscription : CI neg L37/40/B/12 //

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