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Demetrius Imperator Russiae Magnus-Dux Moskoviae Vlodomer Et Navograd

Print
after 1605 (published)
Artist/Maker
Thomas Cockson (engraver)
Compton Holland (publisher)
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
Royalty
Object type
Print
TitleDemetrius Imperator Russiae Magnus-Dux Moskoviae Vlodomer Et Navograd (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Dmitriy [I or II], Emperor of Russia, the 'False Demetrius', engraving by Thomas Cockson, after 1605.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing slightly right, within an oval border with letters.
Dimensions
  • Height: 18.1cm
  • Width: 11.7cm
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
  • 'TC sculp:' (Signed with monogram)
  • 'Demetrius Imperator Russiae Magnus-Dux Moskoviae Vlodomer Et Navograd. Etc. / The most mightie Prince Demetrius Emperour of Russia…and of the North parts, etc. Compton Holland excud.' (Lettered)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Production
Hind lists this print under T. Cockson, but states that the monogram used is also that of Thomas Cecill (see Note 1, page 241 of Engraving in England in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Century, Part 1, (The Tudor Period). The subject of the engraving is uncertain and may be either Grigory Otrepyev, the usurper, the ‘False Demtetrius’ (1581-1606/7), or the ‘False Demetrius II’ (d. 1610).’

Subjects depicted
Monarch
False Dmitriy I
False Dmitriy II
Bibliographic references
  • Hind, Arthur Mayger. Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. London: Cambridge University Press, 1952-5, 3 v.
  • 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.208-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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