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Sir Robert Bruce Cotton

Print
after 1651 (published)
Artist/Maker
Thomas Cross (engraver)
Cornelius Janssen Van Ceulen (artist)
Place of origin
London (published)

Print, portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing slightly right, within an oval border with letters.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleSir Robert Bruce Cotton (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, engraving by Thomas Cross after Cornelius Janssen van Ceulen, after 1651.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing slightly right, within an oval border with letters.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.7cm (cut)
  • Width: 9.2cm (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
'Aesculapius hic Liborum…Britonum consumere chartas / T. Cross Sculpsit.' (Lettered with name of sitter, 2 lines of verse)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
This print was published as the frontispiece to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton's An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace, London, 1665, to Cottoni posthuma, 1651 and to his A discourse of foreign war, 1690.
Production
This was engraved from the portrait by Cornelius Janssen van Ceulen (Cornelis Johnson) now in the British Museum.
Subjects depicted
Antiquary
Politician
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
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.268-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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