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Serenissimus Jacobus VI. Dei Gratia Scotorum Rex.

Print
1598 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Print, portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing slightly right, within an oval border with letters.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSerenissimus Jacobus VI. Dei Gratia Scotorum Rex. (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of James I when James VI of Scotland, engraving by Crispijn de Passe I, 1598.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing slightly right, within an oval border with letters.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.7cm
  • Width: 9.8cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'CVP' (Signed with monogram)
  • 'Viribus…Marti est / Serenissimus Jacobus VI, Dei Gratia Scotorum Rex. Anno Domini 1598 Quod Sis, Esse Velis.' (Lettered)
  • (Stamped with the mark of the collection of Le Normand de Coudrey (1712-1789) (Lugt 1706))
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
This print was published as a plate in Effigies Regum Ac Principum…depictae, et tabellis aeneis incisae a Crispiano Passaeo Zelando, Cologne, 1598.
Subjects depicted
Associated object
E.3016-1960 (Duplicate)
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
  • Franken, Daniel. L’Oeuvre grave des Van De Passe. Amsterdam and Paris: F. Muller & Co., 1881.
  • O'Donoghue, Freeman. British Museum: Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1908-25
  • Hind, Arthur Mayger. Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. London: Cambridge University Press, 1952-5, 3 v.
  • Hollstein, F. W. H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700. Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1949.
Collection
Accession number
E.4669-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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