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Portrait of Roger Crab

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

(publisher)
1778-1812

Title

Portrait of Roger Crab

Date of Production

executed :

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.3 cm
Width: 16 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5862.20

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 & recto : : Herbes and Roots //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper centre & recto : : Roger Crab, that feeds on Hearbs and Roots is here, / But I believe Diogenes had better Cheer. / Rara avis in terris. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre & recto : : Deep things more I have to tell, but I shall now forbeare [colon] / Left some in wrath against me swell, and do my body teare. / From an Unique Print / in the Collection of James Rindley Esqr. / Published 1812 by W. Richardson York House Strand. //

Inscription: inscription : typed : lower left & recto : : Richardson's Ports. illus. Granger's Hist. of Eng. //

Inscription: inscription : written : lower centre & recto : : British School //

Inscription: inscription : written : upper left & recto : : L20/35/c/12a-13 //

Inscription: inscription : written : upper right & recto : : 76 //

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