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Lancelot Andrewes

Print
1635 (published)
Artist/Maker
John Payne (engravers (printmakers))
Badger, R. (publisher)
Place of origin
London (published)

Print, portrait, head and shoulders, of a man wearing a biretta and a rochet. The sitter is holding a book in his right hand, facing half left, within an oval border with letters.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleLancelot Andrewes (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait, head and shoulders, of Lancelot Andrewes. Engraving by John Payne after an unknown artist, frontispiece to XCVI Sermons, 1635.
Physical description
Print, portrait, head and shoulders, of a man wearing a biretta and a rochet. The sitter is holding a book in his right hand, facing half left, within an oval border with letters.
Dimensions
  • Height: 23.2cm (cut)
  • Width: 16.2cm (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
  • 'Effigies R.P. Lanceloti Andrewes Episcopi Wintoniensi' (Lettered)
  • 'See here a Shadow…see him breath' and 'Are to be sold by R. Badger dwelling in Stationers Hall. 1635. John Payne Fecit.' (Lettered with 16 lines of verse)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
The original portrait, after which this engraving was made, is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Production
2nd state.
Subjects depicted
Bishops (Prelates)
Rochet
Biretta
Andrewes, Lancelot
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.3169-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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