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Museum number: 1935,0413.208
Title: Object: Vera Effigies Iohannis Weever aetatis suae 55. Anno 1631
Description: Portrait of Henry Weever wearing an embroidered cap and lace ruff, half-length in an oval, with hand on a skull next to two books. 1632 Engraving
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Production date: 1632
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Dimensions: Height: 172 millimetres; Width: 116 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This was used as the frontispiece to Weever's 'Ancient Funeral Monuments' of 1632 (STC 25223). According to Layard this plate was later altered to become William Foster (f.1632), but Hind had not seen an impression of this state.
Bibliographic references: Hind 1952-64 / Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (III.37.20); Layard 1927 / Catalogue Raisonné of Engraved British Portraits from Altered Plates (113.I)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition date: 1935
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1935,0413.208

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