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The Writing Schoolemaster; or the Anatomie of faire writing

Print
1631 (published)
Artist/Maker
John Payne (engraver)
Place of origin
London (published)

Print, facsimile of a title-page with a portrait, head and shoulders, of a man, facing slightly right, holding a pen in his right hand, within an oval cartouche with letters.


Object details

Categories
Portraits
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleThe Writing Schoolemaster; or the Anatomie of faire writing (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, facsimile of the title-page to The Writing Schoolemaster; or the Anatomie of faire writing by John Davies, engraving, possibly by John Payne, 1631.
Physical description
Print, facsimile of a title-page with a portrait, head and shoulders, of a man, facing slightly right, holding a pen in his right hand, within an oval cartouche with letters.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.3cm (cut)
  • Width: 18.1cm (cut)
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
'1631.' (Lettered with title etc. and)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Subjects depicted
Poet
Cartouche
Pen
John Davies
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
  • O'Donoghue, Freeman. British Museum: Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1908-25.
  • 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.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3188-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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