Accession number
PML 145850.157
Published
[London] : With allowance May 23 1664 Roger Liestrange, [1664]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title and imprint from item.
Formerly attributed by some sources to Wenceslaus Hollar; Pennington (below) tentatively attributes the print to Richard Gaywood.
Caption text below: This Tartar was taken prisoner by Count Serini, a creature of extraordinary strength and valour, who having spent all his arrows in fight against the Christian was taken alive and so continues, being kept carefully in these parts.
Library's copy closely trimmed and torn at upper left, with loss to caption title text.
Mounted as item 157 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).
Formerly attributed by some sources to Wenceslaus Hollar; Pennington (below) tentatively attributes the print to Richard Gaywood.
Caption text below: This Tartar was taken prisoner by Count Serini, a creature of extraordinary strength and valour, who having spent all his arrows in fight against the Christian was taken alive and so continues, being kept carefully in these parts.
Library's copy closely trimmed and torn at upper left, with loss to caption title text.
Mounted as item 157 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 : etching ; image: 195 x 152 mm; sheet: 219 x 160 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the standing bearded figure of the Tartar, facing right, with a long, maned neck and horse-like ears, holding a bow in his left hand, with the string held inward, and an arrow in his right, with the head pointing downwards to the lower left.
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