Portrait of Anna Fullings

Object Name
Category
Prints
Date
c. 1580
Medium
engraving on laid paper
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Presgrave, 1978
Object Number
78/47
Location
Not currently on display but Available for viewing on Wednesdays from 1-4:30 in the Prints and Drawings Study Centre

Dimensions

Sheet: 16.7 × 12.6 cm (6 9/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
Plate Mark: 16.1 × 12 cm (6 5/16 × 4 3/4 in.)

Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription
Inscribed in plate LL: H. Goltzius fecit
With four lines in the margin: "Damnosa quid non imminuit dies/ Aetas parentum peior auis, tulit/ Nos nequiores: mox datures/ progeniem vitiosiorem" (from Horace's 'Roman' Odes).
Verso in graphite various inscriptions: a33119; very fine; EN; mvo.; B.210.; Catherine Decker; Osiil
Markings
possible Watermark center illegible. Blue ink stamp initials verso BL (and showing slight bleed through to recto)

Catalogue Raisonné

H. 225.III; N.H. 222.III; Strauss (1977) 176; Hirschmann (1921) 225; Bartsch III.66.210

Subjects

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