<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Ortance Manchini Duchesse of Mazarin &amp;. [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Verkolje, Jan, 1650-1693, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[approximately 1680]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Portrait of Ortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin; head and shoulders, full face, turned slightly to right; in an oval</dc:description><dc:description>Title engraved below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Place of publication inferred from printmaker's known country of activity. According to the British Museum online catalogue, Verkolje "in 1672 settled in Delft, joining the artists' guild in 1673 [and was] several times dean of the guild during 1678-1688. ... He seems never to have come to England, but some of his prints dated 1680-4 are lettered in English and were intended for the London market."</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed within plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>Window mounted in wash-line mount to 31 x 24 cm.</dc:description><dc:description>Bound in before page 205 in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>