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Portrait of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes

Maker

(artist)
1595-1647

(publisher)
1778-1812

Title

Date of Production

executed :

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 18.4 cm
Width: 11 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5862.3

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 & lower centre image & recto : : REVERENDISSIMUS [rest of Latin text of roundel not transcribed] / Anno 1618 / These LINEAMENTS of Art, have well set forth / Some outward featyres (though no inward worth) / But to these LINES his WRITINGS added, cann / Make up the faire resemblance of a MAN / For as the BODIES forme is figurd here / So there the beautyes of his SOULE appear [semicolon] / Which I had praised [semicolon] but that in THIS place / To praise THEM, were to praise Him to his FACE. / Ge [colon] Wi [colon] / ob. 1628. //

Inscription: inscription : written : lower centre & recto : : L. andrewes / L. ANDREWES / British School //

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

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

Inscription: inscription : stamped : lower right & verso : : M //

Inscription: inscription : written : upper right & recto : : 16 //

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