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Titlepage

Titlepage
(1655)
for Monasticon Anglicanum (Monastic England) by William Dugdale and Roger Dodsworth, printed by Richard Hodgkinson, London, 1655, vol. 1

Medium
etching

Measurements
28.8 × 19.5 cm (image) 29.7 × 19.8 cm (sheet, trimmed within 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 1417 iii/vi; Pennington 2660 ii/v

Edition
3rd of 6 states

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: Wenceſlaus Hollar Bohem, fecit Londini,
printed in ink (in image) c.: MONASTICON / ANGLICANVM / Or / The Cathedrall / and Coventuall / Churches of Eng / land and Wales / Sould by John Ouerton / at the white horſe neere ye (e in superscript above y ) / fountaine tauern without Newgate
printed in ink l.l.-l.c.: Printed and ſould by Iohn Ouerton at ye (e above y ) White horse in Little Brittaine
printed in ink l.r.: 1
printed in ink (in image) c.l.: S. Gregorius,
printed in ink (in image) c.r.: S. Auguſtinus,
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: Non omnia / grandior astas / Que fugiamus habet,
printed in ink (in image) u.l.-l.r.: (Latin inscriptions and text within architectural facade and banderoles)

Accession Number
1278.1369-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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