Sir Thomas Browne. Engraving attributed to T. Cross, 1669.

  • Cross, Thomas, active 1632-1682.
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[1669]
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12025i
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Sir Thomas Browne. Engraving attributed to T. Cross, 1669. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The earliest engraved portrait of Sir Thomas Browne. Since it was replaced as a frontispiece to his Pseudodoxia epidemica three years later (in 1672), it may be unlike. Tildesley suggests that it is an adaptation of a portrait of another person, though no similar portrait has been identified

Publication/Creation

[London], [1669]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 21.6 x 15.1 cm

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Effigies viri doctissimi Tho: Browne med: doctoris.

References note

M.L. Tildesley, Sir Thomas Browne: his skull, portraits and ancestry, Biometrika, vol 15, 1927, p. 7 and plate VII, fig. 9
A.M. Hind, Engraving in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, part III (compiled by M. Corbett and M. Norton), Cambridge 1964, p. 280 and pl. 152a

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Wellcome Collection 12025i

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Attributed to Thomas Cross by Edwards and subsequently, on stylistic grounds, by Corbett and Norton

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