print; book-illustration

Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1948,0315.10.103
Title: Object: Sir Nicholas Bacon
Description: Sir Nicholas Bacon; nearly half-length, turned slightly to the left; in cloak, lined with fur; inscriptions to the left of the head and in the margin below; illustration to the 'Heroologia Anglica' (Arnhem, Crispijn de Passe: 1620) Engraving with etching
Producer name: Print made by: Magdalena de Passe (?); Print made by: Willem van de Passe (?); Published by: Crispijn de Passe the Elder
School/style: British; Dutch
Production date: 1620
Production place: Published in: Arnhem
Materials
Technique: engraving; etching
Dimensions: Height: 164 millimetres; Width: 124 millimetres (trimmed)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For an impression of first state before lettering, see 1927,1008.360. For comment on the publication 'Heroologia Anglica', see L,78.1-67.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (167ad) (Crispijn de Passe); Franken 1881 / L'oeuvre gravé des van de Passe (460); Hind 1952-64 / Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (II.154.17); O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (1)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: Sir Nicholas Bacon; Illustration to: Henry Holland
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1948
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1948,0315.10.103

Free entry

Opening hours