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Portrait of William Hicks

Maker

(artist)
1634-1692

Title

Portrait of William Hicks

Date of Production

executed :

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 16.2 cm
Width: 12.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5861.38

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 around portrait & recto : : AETATIS SUAE 38 Ao DOM 1658 GUGLIELMUS HICKS GEN //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre & recto : : Though Thou no Prophet art, nor Prophets Son / Withought their Spirit, this could ne're be done / Though Brightman, Napeir, Mede, are gone to rest, / Their Sp'rite yet lives redoubled in thy Brest, / Yee' that have cast th'Apocolypse to ground / Because so dark, mysterious, and profound. / Why, take it up againe, and use the Glasse, / Twill then no longer for a Mystrie passe. //

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