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Arthur Lake

Print
1629 (printed)
Artist/Maker
John Payne (engraver)
Richard Greenbury (artist)
Place of origin
London (printed)

Portrait, half-length portrait of a man, facing right, holding a book in his left hand, the right resting on a table. The sitter is wearing a skull-cap and rochet. The portrait is surrounded by a decorative oval cartouche with letters, surmounted by two winged putti, each holding a coat of arms.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleArthur Lake (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, half-length portrait of Arthur Lake, engraving by John Payner after Richard Greenbury, 1629.
Physical description
Portrait, half-length portrait of a man, facing right, holding a book in his left hand, the right resting on a table. The sitter is wearing a skull-cap and rochet. The portrait is surrounded by a decorative oval cartouche with letters, surmounted by two winged putti, each holding a coat of arms.
Dimensions
  • Height: 23.2cm
  • Width: 14.9cm
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
  • 'Ano Aet: 59. obijt / Jo: Payne sculp:. (Lettered with name of sitter etc.)
  • 'Quem pietas…tibi nulla dabit (Lettered with 6 lines of verse )
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
The origina portrait by Richard Greenbury is at New College, Oxford.
Historical context
This print is the frontispiece to Sermons with some Meditations by Arthur Lake, 1629.
Subjects depicted
Bishop
Cartouche
Putti
Rochet
Coat of Arms
Arthur Lake
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.3173-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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