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Portrait of Josiah Ricraft

Maker

(artist)
1616-1691

I. Vickers (engraver)

Title

Portrait of Josiah Ricraft

Date of Production

executed :

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.2 cm
Width: 10.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5860.242

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















Related Works

Series of Portraits Illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre & recto : : Of all the Guifts of Gods most sacred Spiret, / The Guift of Tongues being of much precious merit, / By which, Man, mainly, differs from a Beast, / And all rare Knowledge richly is increast, / How much, to our Insustirous Ricraft, then, / Is due, for his great Paines and usefull Pens. / Who, thus, hath made so Copious a Collection / of th' Orient Characters, for fair Direction / To learn those Tongues [semicolon] A Work most Excellent, / And, of more Worth than Pearles most Orient, / Fow which, with gratefull heart, gine God the Praise, / And Crown brave Ricrafts Browes with fragrant Bayes. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower left & recto : : I [colon] Vickers Scripsit. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right & recto : : W [colon] Faithorne Sculp //

Inscription: inscription : typed : lower center mount & recto : later Witt inscription : W. FAITHORNE //

Inscription: inscription : stamped : upper right mount & recto : : WITT / LIBRARY //

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