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James I

Print
1613 (published)
Artist/Maker
Crispijn De Passe (engraver)
Place of origin
Utrecht (published)

Print, portrait of James I, half length, facing slightly right, holding a sceptre and crowned with laurels. On the right is an orb encircled by the Garter.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Royalty
Scotland
Object type
Print
TitleJames I (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of James I, engraving by Crispijn de Passe I, 1613.
Physical description
Print, portrait of James I, half length, facing slightly right, holding a sceptre and crowned with laurels. On the right is an orb encircled by the Garter.
Dimensions
  • Height: 30.8cm (cut)
  • Width: 23.8cm (cut)
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
Dutch School
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Anno MDCXIII / Qui regis imperio…decenter lauream / Ao 1613. Crisp Passaeus figure: sculp: et exc.' (Lettered with name of sitter etc. and)
  • (Stamped with the mark of the collection of Edward Wenman Martin (died c.1853) (Lugt 914))
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Subjects depicted
King
Orb
Sceptre
James I
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.
  • 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
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3289-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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