Sir John Cheke, Tutor to Edward VI

published 1620

Magdalena van de Passe

Associated Names
Magdalena van de Passe

Artist, Dutch, 1600 - 1638

Willem de Passe

Artist, Dutch, probably 1598 - 1637

The image is a portrait of a man shown from the waist up. He is facing slightly to the right and looking directly at the viewer. The man has a long beard and a mustache. His hair is neatly tucked under a flat top hat with a round brim. He is dressed in an outfit with a fur collar and a patterned garment visible at the chest. There is a chain or piece of jewelry around his neck. The portrait is in an oval frame with decorative text around it. The background consists of simple lines, providing contrast to the detailed features of the man's attire and expression. The composition is on slightly textured paper borderd with Latin inscriptions at the top and bottom.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.8 × 11.4 cm (6 1/4 × 4 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1950.14.300

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 1955, Vol. 5 II, no. 14

  • Series Title

    Herwologia

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Hermann Marx [d. 1948], Surrey, (L.2816a); (Sotheby, London, sale May 24, 1948, no. 165); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891 - 1979], Philadelphia, (L.1932d); gift to NGA, 1950.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1955

  • Hind, Arthur M. Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. 3 vols. Cambridge: University Press, 1955.

Wikidata ID

Q65087222

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