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Print made by Paulus Pontius, 1603–1658, Flemish, Cæsar Alexander Scaglia, ca. 1635
- Title:
Cæsar Alexander Scaglia
- Additional Title(s):
Abbé Cesare Alessandro Scaglia
- Part Of:
- Date:
- ca. 1635
- Medium:
- Line engraving and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 14 15/16 × 11 1/16 inches (37.9 × 28.1 cm), Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 3/8 inches (25.2 × 18.7 cm), Plate: 9 3/4 × 7 3/16 inches (24.8 × 18.3 cm), Image: 8 7/8 × 7 1/16 inches (22.5 × 17.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "W b 64 II state | state extremely rare | ex c. 24962"
Watermark: Crown, fleur-de-lis; collector's mark: George Ambrose Cardew (Lugt 1134)
Lettered, lower center: "CÆSAR ALEXANDER SCAGLIA ABBAS STAPHARDÆ ET MANDANICES | Ant van Dyck pinxit"; lettered, lower left: "Hic quem tacentem nobilis finxit manus | Nuper diserta Principes lingua Regens | Momenta rebus magna perplexis dedit. | P. Pontius Sculp."; lettered, lower right: "Sibi nunc Silendo uiilit : actotum procul | Undare Mundum tacitus e Portu intuens | Animum ad futura doctus ex uisis parat | Mart vanden Enden exudit Cum pribilegio"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.10491
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- ambassador | cape | clergyman | diplomat | leaning | man | mustache | pillar | portrait | religious and mythological subject
- Associated People:
- Scaglia, Cesare Alessandro (1592–1641), Italian cleric and diplomat
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:27629
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