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title-page
Object Type
print
title-page
Museum number
1858,0417.258
Description
Title-page to John Donne's 'LXXX Sermons' (London: Richard Royston, 1640), with portrait of Donne in centre, bust-length, turned slightly to right; in an oval frame with two putti in upper corners and mourning three-quarter length female figures in lower corners. Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Matthäus Merian II
Published by:
Richard Royston
School/style
German
Production date
1640
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
300 millimetres
(Trimmed)
Width:
184 millimetres
(trimmed)
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700
(Undescribed)
Hind 1952-64 / Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
(III.330.4)
O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(9)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
John Donne
Illustration to:
John Donne
Associated titles
Associated Title:
80 Sermons
(London 1640)
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
A E Evans & Sons
Acquisition date
1858
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1858,0417.258