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Portrait of Richard Brome

Maker

(artist)
active 1645-1685 (Life dates)

(publisher)
1778-1812

Title

Portrait of Richard Brome

Date of Production

executed :

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 14.9 cm
Width: 10.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5862.6

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

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre image & recto : : Reader lo heere thou wild two faces finde, / One of the body, t'other of the Minde, / This by the Graver so, that with much strife / Wee thinke Brome dead, hee's drawne so to the life / That by's owne pen's done fo ingeinously / That who read's it must think hee ne'er shall dy. / A.B. / Publish'd Sept 1 1797 by W. Richardson York House Strand. //

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

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

Inscription: inscription : stamped : centre right & verso : : WITT / LIBRARY //

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

Inscription: inscription : written : upper right & recto : : 29 //

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