Edward Leigh
Print
1650 (published)
1650 (published)
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Print, portrait of a man, half-length, facing slightly right, at a table writing in a book.
Object details
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Title | Edward Leigh (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Engraving |
Brief description | Print, portrait of Edward Leigh, engraving by Thomas Cross, 1650. |
Physical description | Print, portrait of a man, half-length, facing slightly right, at a table writing in a book. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'Aetatis Suae 4. Ano. Domin. 1650 T. Cross sculpsit.' (Lettered with name of sitter etc. and) |
Credit line | Given by Edgar Seligman |
Object history | An inscription on the mount records that this impression was formerly in the Theobald collection. This print was published as the frontispiece to Leigh's Critica Sacra, 1650. |
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Accession number | E.252-1960 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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