BIB_ID
433249
Accession number
MA 409.6
Creator
Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756-1823, engraver.
Display Date
[London?] : [publisher not identified] [17--?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving, image: 108 x 88 mm; sheet: 158 x 116 mm
Notes
Title from oval medallion border; below, within border: Vix Ea Nostra Voco.
Below image: Illustrissimus hic eques Philippus Philippi Mornaei Plessiaci de veritate Religionis Christianae librum, in vernaculam linguam vertit. H.H. MD CXX.
Evidently a reverse copy of of an engraving by Crispijn de Passe the younger after a painting attributed in some sources to Isaac Oliver.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Below image: Illustrissimus hic eques Philippus Philippi Mornaei Plessiaci de veritate Religionis Christianae librum, in vernaculam linguam vertit. H.H. MD CXX.
Evidently a reverse copy of of an engraving by Crispijn de Passe the younger after a painting attributed in some sources to Isaac Oliver.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1905.
Summary
Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney, half length directed to the left, in large ruff, cloak and slashed doublet; in oval frame border.
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