King Charles II. Etching by P. Drevet after W. Wissing.

  • Wissing, Willem, 1656-1687.
Date:
[1713?]
Reference:
2042897i
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Description

Half length in oval, wearing lace cravat and armour, surrounded by frame of imbricated laurel leaves entwined with wreath of vines. Above and left, drapery with guilloche border. On ledge below, crown, and shield decorated with oak leaves

Publication/Creation

[Rotterdam] : [Fritsch et Böhm], [1713?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with etching ; platemark 31.2 x 18.6 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Charles II. Roy de la Grande Bretagne. Vander Werff pinxit. Petr. Drevet sculpsit

References note

Freeman O'Donoghue, Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, London 1910, no. 99
Marcel Roux and Edmond Pognon, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome VII, Paris 1951, p. 316, Pierre Drevet no. 30

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2042897i

Creator/production credits

Attributed in the lettering to Adriaen van der Werff. Attributed by O'Donoghue (loc. cit.) to Wissing

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