Mr. Abraham Cowley [graphic]Faithorne, William, 1616-1691, printmaker[1668]eng"Portrait of Abraham Cowley, bust length in an octagonal frame, long hair, wearing gown; frontispiece to his 'Works' (1668)."--British Museum online catalogueTitle engraved below image.Artist identified as Mary Beale in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits.Second state of the first (Plate A) of three similar plates by Faithorne, with cross-hatching added to the crown of the head and a single hair seen on the left of the forehead. See Fagan.Frontispiece to: Cowley, A. The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley. London : Printed by J.M. for Henry Herringman ..., 1668.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.Mounted opposite page 708 (leaf numbered '162' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.