Accession number
PML 145850.162
Published
[England : s.n., 17--?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
With four lines of engraved verse from Gondibert by William Davenant, continuing: ... Which Youth thinks Folly, Age as Wisdom owns: / Fools, by not knowing her, outlive the Wise; / She visits Cities, but she dwells in Thrones.
Mounted as item 162 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).
Possibly an ornamental headpiece from a larger cropped sheet.
With four lines of engraved verse from Gondibert by William Davenant, continuing: ... Which Youth thinks Folly, Age as Wisdom owns: / Fools, by not knowing her, outlive the Wise; / She visits Cities, but she dwells in Thrones.
Mounted as item 162 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).
Possibly an ornamental headpiece from a larger cropped sheet.
Description
1 print : etching ; 97 x 200 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a half-length portrait of a clergyman, facing 3/4 to the left and holding a key, flanked by decorative birds and putti.
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