Portrait of Will Sommers
Maker
(artist)
1600-1699
(publisher)
1778-1812
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
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
Keywords
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 //
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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