print; title-page

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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
Production date: 1640
Production place: Published in: London (England)
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Technique
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
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1858
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1858,0417.258

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