Paulus Pontius, Sir Anthony van Dyck, Gillis Hendricx
Cesare Alessandro Scaglia
1624-1649
Paulus Pontius, Sir Anthony van Dyck, Gillis Hendricx
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 center, in plate "G.H."; below image and lines of verse, lower right, in plate "Cum priuilegio"; below image, lower left, in graphite "t"; below image, lower left, in graphite "4th state"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "10046" Verso: lower left in graphite indecipherable; lower left in graphite "BBM"; lower left in graphite "5754"; lower center in graphite diamond with "10046"; lower right in graphite "E + / 0."
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett WM: fragment, foolscap with five-pointed collar