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Description: | (1) Within image: "AC invent." and "M Ritus Anglus Sculpsit"
(2) Below border line: "ILL.mo ET ECC.mo DOMINO. THOMAE. MARCHIONI. DE SOMERSET. MICHAEL RITVS.ANGLVS. D.D.D.1647. permisu super.m Romae"
(3) "P.L" collector's mark of Peter Lely (Lugt 2092)
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(4) in ink, t.r. "J.B" collector's mark of John Barnard
(5) in ink on sheet edge mounted to verso: "I know of no other Engraving - x (who was an Englishman) - by this Engraver x . He was the author of a well known book of Lauds in Italy. (extremely rare) from the celebrated collection of Sir Pet. Lely. Barnard & Roscoe. Roscoe coll. 730 £1.1.0 [£1.11.6 crossed out]" CRE WRIGHT, John Michael; (Scottish; 1617-1694) AFTER CARRACCI, Annibale; (Italian; 1560-1609) This is the earliest known Scottish print. Made in Rome by an English born painter who trained in Edinburgh with Jamesone and travelled to Italy in 1642. The print is dedicated to Thomas Marquess of Somserset, who may be the same as William Seymour, first marquess of Hertford and second Duke of Somerset (1587-1660). | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | VIRGIN : INFANT : REPRODUCTIVE : MADONNA AND CHILD : RELIGIOUS : DEVOTIONAL : CLASSICISM : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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