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Portrait of King James I

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

(engraver)
ca. 1600-before 1664 (Life dates)

Title

Portrait of King James I

Date of Production

executed :

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.1 cm
Width: 12.8 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5860.185

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 centre & recto : : Kings have their Periods by Dame Natures' date. /The poore man dies, so doth the Potentate; / And though to ye Worlds eye Kings seem compleater; / Their standing high makes but their fall the greater. //

Inscription: inscription : typed : lower left mount & recto : later Witt inscription : Granger, II //

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