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Jeremiah Burroughes

Print
1648 (published)
Artist/Maker
Thomas Cross (engraver)
Peter Cole (printer)
Place of origin
London (published)

Print, portrait of a man, half-length, facing slightly right, holding a book, within an oval border, in the background is a column.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleJeremiah Burroughes (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Jeremiah Burroughes, engraving by Thomas Cross, 1648.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a man, half-length, facing slightly right, holding a book, within an oval border, in the background is a column.
DimensionsDimensions 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
  • 'Aetatis Suae. 45. June. 1. 1646 Cross sculpt Printed by Petr: Cole in Leaden-Hall.' (Lettered with name of sitter etc. and)
  • 'John Sitch Me tenet.' (Inscribed in ink )
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
This print was published as the frontispiece to Burroughe’s Gospel Worship: or the Right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general, London, 1648.
Subjects depicted
Clergyman
Column
Jeremiah Burroughes
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Le Blanc, Charles. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes. Paris: É Bouillon, 1854-1908.
  • 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.
  • O'Donoghue, Freeman. British Museum: Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1908-25.
  • 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.242-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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