Accession number
PML 145850.126
Creator
Hogenberg, Remigius.
Published
[London? : s.n., 1585
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
"Lines to the left of the roundel suggest that another print was engraved on the same plate.This was not published in any Hogenberg literature until 2009 (New Hollstein), perhaps because his signature, on a scroll underneath the hand holding the globe, is tiny and very faintly inscribed."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalog.
Lettered in the frame of the roundel: CUM ESSEM PARVULUS SAPIEBAM UT PARVULUS .I. COR. .XIII. .XI. / HAEC MUTATIO DEXTERAE EXCELSI PSALM IXXVI .XI.; lettered within the image above portrait: LAQUEUS / SOLUTUS / LIBERATOR.
Mounted as item 126 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
"Lines to the left of the roundel suggest that another print was engraved on the same plate.This was not published in any Hogenberg literature until 2009 (New Hollstein), perhaps because his signature, on a scroll underneath the hand holding the globe, is tiny and very faintly inscribed."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalog.
Lettered in the frame of the roundel: CUM ESSEM PARVULUS SAPIEBAM UT PARVULUS .I. COR. .XIII. .XI. / HAEC MUTATIO DEXTERAE EXCELSI PSALM IXXVI .XI.; lettered within the image above portrait: LAQUEUS / SOLUTUS / LIBERATOR.
Mounted as item 126 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 148 x 148 mm; plate mark: 151 x 154 mm; sheet: 193 x 192 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Portrait of Sir Thomas Tresham in a roundel. At center, a half-length seated portrait of Tresham in middle age, shown transcribing two psalms with his right hand and resting his left on a skull, with a seal around his neck; to the left, symbols of the snares of the world, below, juvenile activities represented by a recorder, stringbow, longbow, crossbow, dice, playing cards, literature such as Petrarch and a horn of suretyship; above, more serious pursuits symbolised by the subject titles, such as geometry, farming represented by a plough and crook and building by a set square, compass and property deeds, wealth appears as a sack of coins; above this, a richly sleeved arm offers a globe beneath the word, 'LAQUEUS'; to the right, symbols of Tresham's spiritual life and conversion to Catholicism; panel depicting Christ on the cross, symbols of the Passion including the five wounds, the scourging pillar surmounted by the cock that crew for Peter's denial, the spear and sponge and the cup used to collect Christ's blood; below, reference to the Doctors of the Church, the chalice of the Mass and the host and a set of rosary beads; extensively lettered with captions.
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