Thomas Parr, aged 152. Line engraving by N. Habert, 1715.

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1715
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924i
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Thomas Parr, aged 152. Line engraving by N. Habert, 1715. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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On the sitter see Dictionary of national biography

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1715

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1 print : line engraving ; border 25.5 x 18.8 cm

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Le tres vieux homme Thomas Parr ... vive mon roi autant et plus. Habert sculp. 1715. Lettering continues with eight lines of French prose describing the sitter

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Yves Bruand, Michèle Hébert and Yves Sjöberg, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome XI, Paris 1970, p. 193, no. 19 ("Le tres vieux homme Thomas Parr ... Il mourut à Londres, âgé de 152 ans et plusieurs mois l'an 1635 ...". A mi-corps de tr. q. à g. dans un cadre rectangulaire. Sous le tr. c.: " Habert sculp. 1715." H. 0m218 X L. 0m179.")

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