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Title
King James I [graphic].
Created/published
ca. [1620?]
Description
1 drawing on vellum, oval : watercolor with bodycolor ; 1 5/8 x 1 3/8 in. (4 x 4 cm) (sight)
Material base
skin
Note
Mentioned in Folger Library annual report, 1934-35, pp. 20-21. Title from Pressly.
Source of acquisition
Anderson Galleries, Continuation of Anderson Auction Company, Madison Ave. at 40th St., New York [1915]; 489 Park Ave. at 59th St. [1917]; from September 1929 combined with American Art Association, 19-24 November 1934, lot 736 (no. 198), as by Hilliard, $100; lot 737 (no. 199), as by Hilliard, $90, G. A. Plimpton acting as agent.
Exhibited
Exhibited: 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," 1979-1981, repr. p. 122, as "attributed to Nicholas Hilliard". Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004. Voices for Tolerance in an Age of Persecution (catalog entry 78)
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 198
