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Portrait of Anne Turner

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

(publisher)
1764-1826

Title

Portrait of Anne Turner

Date of Production

executed :

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.2 cm
Width: 12.9 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5860.304

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 : : ANNE TURNER, / EXECUTED AT TYBURN, NOV. 15, 1615 [semicolon] / Accurately copied from a Unique Print, a Wood-cut, in the / Library of the Antiquarian Society. / This infamous woman was the widow of a physician who, being reduced to great want, was prevailed on by the Countess of Essex to / procure poison for the purpose of despatching Sir Thomas Overbury, / a prisoner in the Tower of London, of which offence she was found / guilty, and suffered death at Tybrun, Nov. 15, 1615. / PUBLISHED BY J. CAULFIELD, BOOK AND PRINTSELLER, / NEWPORT STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE. //

Inscription: inscription : typed : lower centre mount & recto : : BRITISH SCHOOL //

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

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

Inscription: inscription : stamped : lower right mount & recto : : M //

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