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Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre
Cecill, Thomas - Enlarge image
Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre
- Object:
Print
- Place of origin:
London (published)
- Date:
1634 (published)
- Artist/Maker:
Cecill, Thomas (engraver)
Mynne, Richard (publisher) - Materials and Techniques:
Engraving
- Credit Line:
Given by Edgar Seligman
- Museum number:
E.158-1960
- Gallery location:
In Storage
Physical description
Print, title page. At the centre of the page is the title and publication details flanked on either side by full-length depictions of Archidamus II (left) and Pericles (right). At the top of the sheet are views of the cities of Sparta (left) and Athens (right), and a map of the Peloponnesian peninsula. At the bottom of the sheet, beneath the lettering, is a cartouche containing a portrait of Thucydides, flanked on either side by scenes containing groups of figures and a depiction of a battle.
Place of Origin
London (published)
Date
1634 (published)
Artist/maker
Cecill, Thomas (engraver)
Mynne, Richard (publisher)
Materials and Techniques
Engraving
Marks and inscriptions
'Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre Written by Thucydides the sonne of Olorus Interpreted with Faith and Diligence Immediately out of the Greeke By Thomas Hobbes Secretary to ye late Earle of Devonshire / London Imprinted for Richard Mynne in Little Briittaine at the signe of S: Paul. MDCXXXIV. / TCecill sculp.'
Lettered with title of book etc. and
Dimensions
Height: 27.9 cm, Width: 19.1 cm
Descriptive line
Print, title-page to Thucydides' Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre, engraving by Thomas Cecill, 1634.
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
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.
Johnson, A. F. A catalogue of engraved and etched English title-pages: down to the death of William Faithorne, 1691. London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, 1934. xi. 109 p.
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
Techniques
Engraving
Subjects depicted
King; Subject; Cartouche; Historian; Rulers; Battle; Map
Categories
Prints; Printed pages & sheets
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection