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Patience

Patience
1552
from the Virtues and Vices series, 1552

Medium
engraving

Measurements
10.2 × 6.1 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
The Illustrated Bartsch 119 (vol. 16, p. 194); Hollstein vol. I, p. 58

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: 1552 / AG (monogram)
printed in ink below image l.l.-l.r.: Botibus herois Patientia plena quietis / Qua deus aetherei miſit ab arce poli
stamped in purple ink on reverse c.: NATIONAL GALLERY / OF VICTORIA (in oval) (Lugt 1932g)
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.r.: R.S. 1062A (A in superscript)
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.c.: B119 / Patience
inscribed in pencil on small backing sheet l.r.: La Patience
inscribed in pen and brown ink on small backing sheet on reverse c.l.: WS (Lugt 2650: W. Sharp)
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.l.: (...illeg.) (largely erased)
inscribed in pen and brown ink l.r.: (...illeg.)
stamped in ink l.l.: (top of square) (collector's stamp; incomplete. Probably Lugt 2364: Sir Joshua Reynolds)
inscribed in pencil on large backing sheet c.r.: R.S. 1062 (1062 in a circle)
inscribed in pencil on large backing sheet l.l.: B. 119 Patience

Accession Number
1278.564-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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