Phillippus Sydney [print] / C. Taylor sculp.

Record ID: 
433249
Accession number: 
MA 409.6
Author: 
Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756-1823, engraver.
Credit: 
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.

Summary: 

Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney, half length directed to the left, in large ruff, cloak and slashed doublet; in oval frame border.

Provenance: 
Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1905.