Margverite Lemon angloise [graphic]

Description

Title: Margverite Lemon angloise [graphic]
Alternative Title: Marguerite Lemon angloise
Creator: Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, printmaker
Contributor: Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641, artist.
Borcht, Hendrick van der, 1614-1676, publisher.
Published / Created: [1646]
Publication Place: Antwerp?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait of Margaret Lemon, half length to right, holding flowers."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Place of publication inferred from publisher's known city of residence in 1646. Hendrick van der Borcht the Younger accompanied the collections of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel, to Antwerp when they were moved there in 1642-4, and continued working for Lady Arundel until her death in 1654; see British Museum online catalogue.
Below title are eight lines of verse in two columns, signed "R.G. Sr. D.L.": Flore, Thisbe! Lucresse & Porcie & Cypris ...
Engraved below verses: Omnia vincit amor & nos Cedamus amori. Virgil.
1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 25.6 x 17.8 cm.
Printed on laid paper with watermark.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Window mounted to 31 x 24 cm.
Bound in opposite page 211 in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Thomas Mackinlay. Also owned by Sir Thomas William Boord, Bart., with his bookplate in the volumes. Sotheby's, Mrs. E.M. Copeman, lot 110; 3 June 1935.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.9 x 17.9 cm, on sheet 37 x 28 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French