Effigies Gulielmi Bagwell aetat. 66 ano. Dom. 1659. [art original]

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Title: Effigies Gulielmi Bagwell aetat. 66 ano. Dom. 1659. [art original]
Published / Created: [17--?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of William Bagwell, a London merchant and astronomer; bust-length, wearing a cap. The portait is enclosed in an oval within a rectangle; six lines of quoted verse are written below, beginning: "In traffick first his youthfull time he spent ...".
Description: Title from ink inscription at bottom of image.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
A copy of a seventeenth-century engraving by William Faithorne, which was an illustration to Bagwell's Wit's extraction, conveyed to the ingenious in riddles (London, 1664).
On verso is another drawing: [William Somner].
Two drawings on one sheet, recto and verso.
For further information, consult library staff.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 99 x 79 mm, on sheet 15.1 x 11.3 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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Citation: Effigies Gulielmi Bagwell. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.