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Portrait of Will Sommers

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

(publisher)
1778-1812

Title

Portrait of Will Sommers

Date of Production

executed :

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 23.3 cm
Width: 13 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5860.278

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 : within image top and lower centre & recto : : Will Sommers Kinge Heneryes Jester / What though tho thinkst mee clad in strange attire, / Knowe I am Suted to my owne deseire . And yet the Characters described upon mee / May shewe thee that a King bestowed them on me / This horne I have betokens Sommers game / Which sportive tyme will big thee reade my name / All with my Nature well agreeing too / As both the Name and Tyme and Habit doe / Published April 2nd 1798 by William Richardson. York House N. 31 Strand. //

Inscription: inscription : typed : lower centre mount & recto : : H. HOLBEIN II //

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

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