| Method | Engraving |
| Artist | |
| Published | c.1652 |
| Dimensions | Image 180 x 110 mm, Sheet 321 x 204 mm |
| Notes |
Lettered with title around oval, and eight lines of verse below reading: 'Agnosco vultus quibus UNI innotuit aevo,/Oraq, Daedalea delineata manu:/ Pinge ALIOS; nam qui Cataclysmo condidit isthmum,/Et tot commisit tempora, jure BIFRONS./Magna O CAMDENO major PUPILLE! BRITANNAM/Hic terram, MUNDOS astruis ipse NOVOS./Respice Alexander, PLURES qui praebeat orbes,/A tergo SIMSON conspiciendus adest.' Signed 'T.J.' Portrait of Edward Simpson (1578 - 1651) DD; rector of Pluckley, Kent; half length in an oval frame, aged 73, wearing skull-cap, collar and gown, hand on a large book; pillar and curtain in the background; frontispiece to his 'Chronicon historiam catholicam complectens' (Oxford, 1652). O'Donoghue 1 Condition: Trimmed to plate mark and tipped to album page, small hole to centre of inscription space. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £30.00 |
| Stock ID | 24689 |