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Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre

Print
1634 (published)
Artist/Maker
Thomas Cecill (engraver)
Richard Mynne (publisher)
Place of origin
London (published)

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.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Printed Pages & Sheets
Object type
Print
TitleEight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, title-page to Thucydides' Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre, engraving by Thomas Cecill, 1634.
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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 27.9cm
  • Width: 19.1cm
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
'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)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Subjects depicted
King
Rulers
Historian
Battle
Cartouche
Map
Thucydides
Pericles
Archidamus II
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.
  • 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.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.158-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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