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The Right Honourable and truly Generous Henry Veere Earle of Oxford Vicount Bulbeck etc

Print
early 17th century (printed)
Artist/Maker
John Payne (engraver)
Place of origin
London (printed)

Print, half-length portrait of a man facing half right, holding a staff in his right hand and resting his left hand on his hip.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleThe Right Honourable and truly Generous Henry Veere Earle of Oxford Vicount Bulbeck etc (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, half-length portrait of Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford, engraving by John Payne after an unknown artist, early 17th century.
Physical description
Print, half-length portrait of a man facing half right, holding a staff in his right hand and resting his left hand on his hip.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.2cm (cut)
  • Width: 6.7cm (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
English School
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'The Right Honourable and truly Generous Henry Veere Earle of Oxford Vicount Bulbeck etc Lord High Chamberlaine of England / E. W / J. Payne sculp:' (Lettered)
  • (Stamped with the mark of the collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-1897) (Lugt 151))
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
The British Museum Library possesses Gervase Markham’s Honour in his perfection, 1624, in which an impression of this portrait has been inserted as a frontispiece.
Subjects depicted
Nobleman
Soldier
Henry De Vere
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.
  • O'Donoghue, Freeman. British Museum: Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1908-25.
  • Corbett, Margery and Michael Norton. Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: the Reign of Charles I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952-64.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3182-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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