print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: Gg,4E.165
Title: Object: Tamerlanes Tartarorum Imper Potentiss.
Description: Portrait of Tamerlane, half-length in an oval, bearded, wearing coat and belt, and with one hand on falcon-headed hilt of sword; illustration to the first edition of Richard Knolles' "The Generall Historie of the Turkes" (London, Adam Islip: 1603) Engraving
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Production date: 1603
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Dimensions: Height: 135 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 104 millimetres (trimmed)
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Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: Timur; Illustration to: Richard Knolles
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Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: John Bagford; Previous owner/ex-collection: Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford
Acquisition date: 1814
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Gg,4E.165

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