Accession number
PML 146639, p. 324 (facing)
Published
[S.l. : s.n., 1635?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item; engraved verse in Latin below portrait reads: Gonzales nitet hie Romana notus in aula / Cuius in humano stat pilus ore ferae / Et tibi qui quondam Ferrari junctus amore / Vixit, adhuc Spirans vivit, in obsequio.
Etched oval design of a portrait within decorative lettered frame, evidently executed for Mercurio Ferrari to commemorate the death of his friend, the hairy man Horatio Gonzales, in 1635.
Library's copy trimmed within platemark.
Print inlaid into a larger leaf and inserted after p. 324 into v. 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146639.
Etched oval design of a portrait within decorative lettered frame, evidently executed for Mercurio Ferrari to commemorate the death of his friend, the hairy man Horatio Gonzales, in 1635.
Library's copy trimmed within platemark.
Print inlaid into a larger leaf and inserted after p. 324 into v. 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146639.
Description
1 print : etching ; 217 x 151 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Head and shoulders portrait of "hairy man" Horatio Gonzales, shown facing 3/4 to the left.
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