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Object Type
Museum number: P,4.240
Title: Object: Mr; William Lilly, Student in Astrologie
Description: Portrait of William Lilly, with shoulder-length wavy hair, standing half-length to right behind a table, holding upright a piece of paper lettered with 'non / cogunt', beside a small open book, wearing white collar overdark cloak and doublet; in an oval. Etching
Producer name
School/style: British; Bohemian
Production date: 1652-1660 (c.)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 105 millimetres; Width: 76 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See Q,4.233 for another impression.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700 (2556) (Hollar); Pennington 1982 / A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar (1460); O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (3)
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Acquisition date: 1810 (before)
Acquisition notes: Laid down
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: P,4.240

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