Vera Effigies Iohannis Weever Aetatis Suaw 55. Anno 1631.Lancashire gave him breath, And Cambridge educaton. His studies are of Death. Of Heaven his meditation.
T.Cecill sculp.
[n.d. 1632.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼"). Trimmed to image on three sides, mounted in album paper.
Portrait of John Weever (c.1575-1632), poet and antiquarian, wearing an embroidered cap and lace ruff, half-length in an oval, with hand on a skull next to two books. This was used as the frontispiece to his 'Ancient Funeral Monuments Within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and The Islands Adjacent'.
[Ref: 56274] £130.00
[n.d. 1632.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼"). Trimmed to image on three sides, mounted in album paper.
Portrait of John Weever (c.1575-1632), poet and antiquarian, wearing an embroidered cap and lace ruff, half-length in an oval, with hand on a skull next to two books. This was used as the frontispiece to his 'Ancient Funeral Monuments Within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and The Islands Adjacent'.
[Ref: 56274] £130.00