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Object Type
print
Museum number
T,7.49
Description
Portrait of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, half-length, seated with open Bible and an hourglass by a window at left, in an oval; four coats-of-arms at corners. 1573 Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Remigius Hogenberg
School/style
Netherlandish
Production date
1573
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
110 millimetres
Width:
88 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
After a painting attributed to Richard Lyne in Lambeth Palace, London. According to Hind the plate was undoubtedly intended to be used in Parker's 'De Antiquitate Britanniae Ecclesiae', John Day, London 1572.
Bibliographic references
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700
(31.II)
(Hogenberg)
Hind 1952-64 / Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
(I.74.4)
O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(1)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(16)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury
Acquisition date
1837
(before)
Acquisition notes
The print is laid down and there is no indication of the provenance on the mount.
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
T,7.49
Additional IDs
Other BM number:
1972,U.924