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William Camden Edwards, 1777–1855, British, Nicholas Hilliard, 1826
- Title:
Nicholas Hilliard
- Date:
- 1826
- Medium:
- Line engraving, stipple engraving, and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 15/16 x 6 9/16 inches (25.3 x 16.7 cm), Plate: 8 7/16 x 5 1/16 inches (21.4 x 12.8 cm), Image: 2 11/16 x 2 11/16 inches (6.8 x 6.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower center: "v"; on back, lower right: "y | 25A"
Lettered within image, in frame, with sitter's biography in Latin; lower center: "NICHOLAS HILLIARD, | A Fac simile of the very curious Miniature | by Himself, described on page 289, & still | remaining at Penshurst. | Copied (with permission of Sir John Sidney Bart.) by | G. P. Harding and Engraved by W. C. Edwards. | LONDON, | Published by John Major, 50, Fleet Street, Feby. 15th. 1826."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.12379
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- artist | bust | costume | doublet | hat | illustration | jerkin | jewels | man | miniature (painting) | mustache | portrait | reticella | roundel (architectural element) | ruff | self-portrait | tondo
- Associated People:
- Hilliard, Nicholas (ca. 1547–1619), miniature painter
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:49479
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