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John Evelyn

John Evelyn
(c. 1650)

Medium
engraving

Measurements
23.9 × 16.9 cm (image) 24.5 × 17.4 cm (plate) 26.7 × 18.5 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Petitjean & Wickert 71 v/vi; Robert-Dumesnil 93 iv

Edition
5th of 6 states

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: R. Nanteüil
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: delineabat, & Scul.
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: Meliora Retinete. / (two lines of Greek verse by Isocrates)
printed (diagonally) in ink (in image) (on book) l.l.: IE (monogram)
printed in ink (in image) (on open page) l.r.: (symbol of two triangles)

Accession Number
511-5

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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