Accession number:
PML 145850.76
Published:
[London : s.n., ca. 1635]
Description:
1 print : engraving ; 243 x 159 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Title from item, date suggested by ESTC
Entirely engraved by Jacob van Langeren after a design by William Slatyer.
With six lines of engraved verse at foot of design, the first line reading: Though our Earthes Gentry Vaunt her self So Good ...
Mounted as item 76 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).
Library's copy closely trimmed with loss of imprint.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
An emblematic engraving featuring a coat of arms with Christian motifs, flanked by the pillars of Fortitudine and Constantia.
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