Paulus Pontius and Sir Anthony van Dyck
Cesare Alessandro Scaglia
1624-1649
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower right, in plate "OBIT XXI. MAY / M. DC. XLI."; below image, lower center, in plate "CÆSAR ALEXANDER SCAGLIA ABBAS STAPHARDÆ ET MANDANICES."; below image, lower center beneath title, six lines of verse in Latin (two columns of three lines): "Hic, quem tacentem nobilis finxit manus, / Sibi nunc silendo uiuit: actotum procul / Nuper diserta Principes linguâ mouens / Vndare Mundum tacitus e Portu untuens / Momenta rebus magna perplexis dedit. / Animum ad futura, doctus ex uisis parat."; below image and lines of verse, lower left, in plate "P. Pontius sculp."; below image and lines of verse, lower center, in plate "Ant. van Dyck pinxit"; below image and lines of verse, lower right, in plate "Cum priuilegio"; above image, upper right, in brown ink "29"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett WM: entwined "CC" with crown
