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Frontispiece

Frontispiece
(c. 1658)
for The Whole Duty of Man by Richard Allestree, published by Timothy Garthwait, London, 1657, 1st edition

Medium
etching

Measurements
15.0 × 8.5 cm (image) 15.9 × 9.1 cm (sheet, trimmed to platemark)

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

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
London, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné
New Hollstein 1663 (copy); Pennington 2661A (copy)

Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: W Hollar fecit.
printed in ink (in image) c.: The / WHOLE DUTY / of / MAN / Plainly layd down for / the uſe of ye (e in superscript above y) meanest / Reader; / with / PRAYERS / fitted to ſeuer / all occa / ſions
printed in ink u.l.-u.r.: The Firſt Frontiſepiece to the Old DUTY of MAN.
printed in ink (in image) u.c.-l.r.: (verses from the Bible)

Accession Number
1278.1334-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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