The creation robe of a baron [graphic].

New Hollstein title: Baron

[State 1 of 2].

[London] : [Thomas Jenner?], [between 1640 and 1662]

1 print : etching ; plate mark 120 x 80 mm

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"He stands half left, bare-headed, and holds a document, not sealed, in his right hand. His left side is hidden by a cloak which has a rounded cape over one half of it. He has a kind of falling ruff, and rosettes on his shoes." --Pennington.

Title from item.

State and dimensions from New Hollstein.

New Hollstein identifies these prints as likely published by Thomas Jenner, who advertised "The creation robes of the nobility in 9-plates" in his Catalogue of severall bookes, 1662.

From a set of nine prints depicting the ceremonial robes of the English nobility. The plates were later numbered and published by John Bowles under the title Hollar's Habits, or, The nobility in their creation robes.

According to Pennington, the designs derive from the larger engravings in Richard Glover, Nobilitas politica vel civilis, 1608 (STC 11922). Hollar changed only the heads and the ruffs making the latter more contemporary in style.

"It is difficult to believe that 1664 is the year of their being etched, as Bowles' entry suggests, since Charles is shown as Prince of Wales, that is to say before 1649, and Arundel is the earls' representative, and he died in 1646." --Pennington.

Pennington, R. Descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 1993
New Hollstein German etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, 2538

Great Britain -- England -- London.

ART 259- 535 (size S)

Trimmed within plate mark and mounted on same sheet as Folger ART 259- 536, a contemporary or near-contemporary copy.

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