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- Title:
George Gower
- Additional Title(s):
George Godwin
- Date:
- 1800
- Medium:
- Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 11/16 inches (36.8 x 27.2 cm), Plate: 12 3/8 x 9 3/4 inches (31.5 x 24.8 cm), Image: 9 x 7 11/16 inches (22.8 x 19.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower center: "George Gower"; lower right: "Gower"; on back, lower right: "5/ | proof | * | 25th | IR74/2027"
Lettered within image, upper left: "Thogh yovthfull wayes me did intyse from armies and uerlewke | yet thanckt be God for his god gift, wch. long did rest as slepe | Now skill reuyues wth gayne, and lyfe to leade in rest | by pencils trade. wherefore I must, esteme of it as best | The proef wher of thies ballance show and armes my birth displ ^[vcy] a | what Parents bare by just renowme, my skill mayntenes the prayes | And them whose vertew, fame and acts, haue won for me this shield | Irenerence muche wh. feruyee eke and thanks to them do yield."; within image, lower right, on palette: "Ano dni 1579"; lower right: "Js: Basire del. et Sc."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.12317
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- coat of arms | costume | dividers | man | paint | paintbrush | palette | portrait | ruff | scale (weighing device) | self-portrait
- Associated People:
- Gower, George (ca. 1838–died 1596), portrait and decorative painter
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:51879
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