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Unknown man (formerly Ben Jonson) [graphic].

Murdoch, Ada Oliphant, former owner.; Lautreppe, comte de, former owner.
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Title
Unknown man (formerly Ben Jonson) [graphic].
Created/published
Seventeenth century with later overpainting.
Description
1 painting on panel : oil ; 57.2 x 44 cm
Associated name
Murdoch, Ada Oliphant, former owner.
Lautreppe, comte de, former owner.
Material base
wood
Note
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Strong 1969, vol. 1, p. 184.
Provenance
Provenance: Collection of Comte de Lautreppe, 9 rue Pasquier, Paris; by descent to Miss Ada Oliphant Murdoch, The Rockingham, Broadway and 56th Street, New York, as of April 1916.
Source of acquisition
Bought by Folger from George D. Smith, Old and Rare Books, Autographs, Prints, Etc., 70 Wall st. and 547 5th Ave., New York, December 1917, $500.
Exhibited
Exhibited: Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "Shakespeare, Hamlet, and Macbeth" (no catalogue), 1951, as Jonson by Isaac Oliver; San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences, and six other cities in traveling exhibition organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library, "Shakespeare: The Globe and the World," 1979-1982, repr. in color p. 176 as "Ben Jonson attr. to Isaac Oliver."
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 192
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPb33
Genre/form
Portrait paintings.

Call number
FPb33
Folger-specific note
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Folger accession
cs753