Record ID:
433249
Accession number:
MA 409.6
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.
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