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Effigies Reuerendi in Christo Patris Domini Iohannis Howsoni Episcopi Dunelmensis [graphic] / Martin Dro. sculp.

Droeshout, Martin, 1601- printmaker.; Peake, William, -1639, publisher.
1632
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Title
Effigies Reuerendi in Christo Patris Domini Iohannis Howsoni Episcopi Dunelmensis [graphic] / Martin Dro. sculp.
Edition
[State 1 of 2].
Created/published
[London] : Are to be sould by William Peake, [ca. 1632]
Description
1 print : engraving ; plate mark 215 x 156 mm
Associated name
Droeshout, Martin, 1601- printmaker.
Peake, William, -1639, publisher.
Material base
paper
Summary
Oval portrait, half length, slightly to viewer's left; long beard, wearing cap, ruff, rochet and stole; coats of arms in upper corners. In lower margin, four lines of English verse beginning "What this Appelles heere hath drawne to the Eye."
Note
Title from lettering around oval portrait.

State from Hind.

According to Hind, after a half length picture, inscribed 1631, aet. 75, in Christ Church, Oxford. The print is in reverse, and the hands not shown.

Plate mark dimensions from British Museum collection database, accessed 16 January 2013.
Cited/described in
Hind, A.M. Engraving in England in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries, v. 2, p. 353, no. 9
British Museum. Catalogue of engraved British portraits, Howson, John, no. 1
Genre/form
Portraits, Male.
Prints.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
V.a.510 (2), fol. 294v
Folger-specific note
Trimmed within platemark, removing verses, statement of responsibility, and imprint.

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