Sir Francis Moore, M.P.

published 1663

William Faithorne

Associated Names
William Faithorne

Artist, English, 1616 - 1691

The image is an engraved portrait of the upper half of a man's body. The man is seated in a forward-facing position with his head slightly turned to his left, looking directly at the viewer. His facial features include a high forehead, arched eyebrows, medium-length narrow nose, and a trimmed mustache and goatee. He has short-cropped hair, parted on one side. He is dressed in a high-collared garment with an intricately detailed, ruffled collar around his neck. The garment appears to be a cloak or robe. The man holds a rolled-up object in his left hand. Around him is an ornate oval frame with Latin inscriptions forming a border. In the background, a lined pattern adds texture, with no specific scene or location depicted.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 19.7 × 13 cm (7 3/4 × 5 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1951.11.708

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fagan 1888, no. 49


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified private collector (not in Lugt). W. B. Dukes [d. 1942], London, (L.2757a); (Sotheby, London, sale July 8, 1942, no. 112); 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, 1951.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1888

  • Fagan, Louis. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Engraved Works of William Faithorne. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1888.

Wikidata ID

Q65368510

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