print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1895,1031.333
- Description
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Printer's device of John Day; tomb with skeleton lying on top, from which a tree grows with an inscribed scroll, 'Post funera virtus vivet tamen'; standing to the right of the tomb, two men, with an inscribed scroll, 'Etsi mors in dies accelerat'; mountain with buildings in the background to the left; bay with ships in the background to the centre; appears in Roger Ascham’s 'The Scholemaster'.
Engraving
- Production date
- 1680-1730
- Dimensions
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Height: 138 millimetres
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Width: 85 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Appears in Roger Ascham’s The Scholemaster (originally published 1570); the device of printer John Day. This information is supplied by Prof. Graham Shipley (email, January 2019).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Scholemaster
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,1031.333