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Nicholas Culpeper

Print
1649 (published)
Artist/Maker
Thomas Cross (engraver)
Place of origin
London (published)

Print, portrait of a man, half-length, facing slightly right, in the background is a coat of arms.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleNicholas Culpeper (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Nicholas Culpeper, engraving by Thomas Cross, 1649.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a man, half-length, facing slightly right, in the background is a coat of arms.
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.8cm (cut)
  • Width: 11.1cm (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
'The shaddow of…in the Booke / Cross sculpsit.' (Lettered with name of sitter, 4 lines of verse)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
This print was published as the frontispiece to Physicall Directory, or a translation of the London Dispensatory, London, 1649.
Subjects depicted
Astrologer
Physician
Coat of Arms
Nicholas Culpeper
Associated object
E.4448-1960 (Version)
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.283-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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