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Abdiah Cole

Print
1655 (published)
Artist/Maker
Thomas Cross (engraver)
Place of origin
London (published)

Print, portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing slightly right, within an oval border, below is a cartouche.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleAbdiah Cole (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Abdiah Cole, engraving by Thomas Cross, 1655.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing slightly right, within an oval border, below is a cartouche.
Dimensions
  • Height: 12.4cm (cut)
  • Width: 8.6cm (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
'Cross fecit' (Lettered with name of sitter etc. and)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
This print has been cut from Cole's translation of The Practice of Physick…a translation of the works of L. Riverius, London, 1655.
Subjects depicted
Physician
Cartouche
Abdiah Cole
Bibliographic references
  • 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.
  • 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.285-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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