Image

William Marshall

Frontispiece to Speculum Mundi,

Description

Maker

Title

Frontispiece to Speculum Mundi

Medium

engraving

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

15.9 x 11.6 cm (6 1/4 x 4 9/16 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Recto:Unscribed in LR:Will: Marshall sculpsit.; titled in LC:SPECULUM/MUNDI/or/A Glasse representing the Face of the /World./Where unto is added a Discourse of the Creation/together Wth a Consideration of such things as are pertinent/to each days Worke./Written/By John Swan Mr of Arts/Late Student of Trinitie Colledge Camb./Printed at Cambridge by R:D/for John Williams at the signe of the/Crowne in St. Paules church/yard 1644

Marks: Stamped in black ink on verso:(oval and a Griffin?)unidentified 19th Century collector's mark (Lugt 2799b)

Type

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

66.108.2

About

Frontispiece to Speculum Mundi

Original--Recto:Unscribed in LR:Will: Marshall sculpsit.; titled in LC:SPECULUM/MUNDI/or/A Glasse representing the Face of the /World./Where unto is added a Discourse of the Creation/together Wth a Consideration of such things as are pertinent/to each days Worke./Written/By John Swan Mr of Arts/Late Student of Trinitie Colledge Camb./Printed at Cambridge by R:D/for John Williams at the signe of the/Crowne in St. Paules church/yard 1644

Marks: Stamped in black ink on verso:(oval and a Griffin?)unidentified 19th Century collector's mark (Lugt 2799b)

Use

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