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The Rights of War and Peace

Print
1682 (published)
Artist/Maker
Thomas Cross (engraver)
Ralph Smith (publisher)
Place of origin
London (published)

Title-page with a portrait of the author, head and shoulders, facing half right, within an oval border with letters, and a similar portrait of the translator, facing slightly left, flank a representation of harvest and vintage. In the centre, figures emblematic of Peace and War flank the title. Below is a battle scene.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Printed Pages & Sheets
Object type
Print
TitleThe Rights of War and Peace (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, title-page to The Rights of War and Peace by Hugo Grotius, engraving by Thomas Cross, 1682.
Physical description
Title-page with a portrait of the author, head and shoulders, facing half right, within an oval border with letters, and a similar portrait of the translator, facing slightly left, flank a representation of harvest and vintage. In the centre, figures emblematic of Peace and War flank the title. Below is a battle scene.
Dimensions
  • Height: 29.8cm
  • Width: 18.7cm
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
'T. Cross Senior Sculpsit. Printed for Ralph Smith under the Piazza of ye Royall Exch. In Cornhill.' (Lettered with title, names of sitters etc. and)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
Hugo Grotius' The Rights of War and Peace was translated by the Rev. William Evats, B.D., and published by Ralph Smith, London, 1682.
Subjects depicted
Author
Battle
Hugo Grotius
War
Peace
Reverend William Evats
Bibliographic references
  • 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.
  • Johnson, A. F. A catalogue of engraved and etched English title-pages: down to the death of William Faithorne, 1691. London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, 1934. xi. 109 p.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.292-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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