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Benjaminus Johnson. Obijt Anno. Dom 1687. Aetat 63. Fronti nulla Fides huic non dicatur: Apelle A tanto Vates, en redivivus ades. Immortale duplez micat hic opus: Illius Arte Forma, tua a Penna Fama, perennis erit. E Pinacotheca Nobilissimi & Honoratissimi Joannis Domini Sommers &c. Cui Tabulam hanc humillimè dicat.
Gerard Honthorst pinxit. Geo: Vertue, Londini Sculp.
Amico suo Mauritio Johnson I.C. Artium Amatori redicat 1730. G. Vertue.
Engraving. Plate 372 x 252mm (14¾ x 10") Fine.
Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets.
[Ref: 12633] £140.00
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Benjaminus Johnson. Obijt Anno} Dom. 1637. aetat. 63. Fronti nulla Fides huic non dicatur: Apelle A tanto, Vates, èn redivivus ades. Immortale duplex micat hic opus: Illius Arte Forma, tuâ a Pennâ Fama, perennis erit. E Pinacotheca Nobilissimi & Honoratissimi Joannis Domini Sommers &c. Cui Tabulam hanc humillimè dicat. Amico suo Mauritio Johnson I.C. Artium Amatori redicat 1730. G. Vertue.
Gerard Honthorst pinxit. Geo: Vertue, Londini Sculp.
[n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving. Image 369 x 253mm (14½ x 10"). Trimmed and laid on sheet. Some glue staining to the corners.
Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets. From the Belton House Collection assembled in the 18th Century by the Rt. Hon. John Ld. Brownlow, Baron Charleville, & Viscount Tyrconnel in the Kingdom of Ireland. Ex: Col The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. In
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Benjaminus Johnson. Obijt Anno. Dom 1687. Aetat 63. Fronti nulla Fides huic non dicatur: Apelle A tanto Vates, en redivivus ades. Immortale duplez micat hic opus: Illius Arte Forma, tua a Penna Fama, perennis erit. E Pinacotheca Nobilissimi & Honoratissimi Joannis Domini Sommers &c. Cui Tabulam hanc humillimè dicat.
Gerard Honthorst pinxit. Geo: Vertue, Londini Sculp. 1711. [Early issue]
Sold by G. Vertue at his house the further end of Brownlow street from Drury Lane.
Fine engraving. 370 x 250mm (14½ x 9¾"). Small margins.
Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637), Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets. Alexander 75. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
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[William II, Prince of Orange] Guilielmus Nassavius, Nat. Princeps Auriacus etc.
G. Hondthorst Pinxit. I. Suiderhoef Sculp.
P. Soutman Inven. Effigiavit et Excud. Cum Privil [n.d., c.1645]
Etching. Collector's mark bottom right; 450 x 365mm (17¾ x 14½"). Narrow margins, large repaired tear, right edge frayed. Damaged.
Head and shoulders portrait of William II, Prince of Orange (1626 - 1650) as a boy, taken from the full-length painting by Gerard van Honthorst from c.1640 now in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.
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