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The right learned Divine William Whitaker of Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge

Print
1620 (published)
Artist/Maker
John Payne (engraver)
Compton Holland (publisher)
Place of origin
London (published)

Print, half-length portrait of a man, facing slightly right and holding a book in his right hand. The portrait is in an oval cartouche with letters and books.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleThe right learned Divine William Whitaker of Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, half-length portrait of William Whitaker, engraving by John Payne after an unknown artist, 1620.
Physical description
Print, half-length portrait of a man, facing slightly right and holding a book in his right hand. The portrait is in an oval cartouche with letters and books.
Dimensions
  • Height: 17.8cm (cut)
  • Width: 12.4cm (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
'Obijt Aet: 47 The right learned Divine William Whitaker of Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge, and master of St. John Colledge their: He wrot many learned Bookes against (these English Priests), Stapleton, Sanders, Reignolds, & Campian: as also against their great Arch-Jesuit Robert Bellarmin; he lived godly, was painfull in preaching, and died peaceably. 1595 / Are [to be] sould be Compton Holland over against the Exchange John Payne sculp: Lond: 16[20].' (Lettered with name of sitter etc.)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
The original portrait is at St. John's College, Cambridge.
Subjects depicted
Theologian
Cartouche
William Whitaker
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.3171-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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