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Sir Thomas Overbury (continued)

Maker

(author)
ca. 1743-1818 (Life dates)

(publisher)
1745-1809

Title

Sir Thomas Overbury (continued)

Date of Production

1798

Medium

printed in black

Dimensions

Height: 26.8 cm
Width: 20.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.6112.101

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: ( 131 ) / During Overbury's confinement, a suit having been instituted for the / purpose of declaring the marriage of Lord and Lady Essex a ity, and / the husband acknowledging that he was impotens versus hanc, * though ca- / pable of satisfying any other woman; and the lady, on the inspection of / three gentlewomen and two midwives, being pronounced a virgin; ... //

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