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Mathaei Parisiensis Historici

Print
1640 (published)
Artist/Maker
Thomas Cecill (engraver)
Place of origin
England (published)

Print, portrait of a man, full-length, facing slightly right, standing.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleMathaei Parisiensis Historici (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Matthew Paris, engraving by Thomas Cecill, 1640.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a man, full-length, facing slightly right, standing.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21.3cm
  • Width: 13.3cm
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
'T. Cecill sculp: Mathaei Parisiensis Historici (qui obit 1259) vera effigies ex Libro eius Chronicorum MS, olim sui ipsius, nunc Regio. desumpta.' (Lettered)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
This print was published as the frontispiece to Paris' Angli historia maior, 1640.
Subjects depicted
Monk
Historian
Scholar
Chronicler
Matthew Paris
Bibliographic references
  • 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.163-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O567405/mathaei-parisiensis-historici-print-thomas-cecill/
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