Schelte Adams Bolswert and Sir Anthony van Dyck
Mary Ruthven
1624-1649
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Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 375 × 296 mm. (14 3/4 × 11 5/8 in.)
Plate: 243 × 169 mm. (9 9/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.15688
Mary Ruthven was lady-in-waiting to Henrietta Maria, and wife of Van Dyck (married 1639) and later Sir Richard Pryse (c.1622 - 1645). The engraving is after the painting by Van Dyck, now in the collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower center, in plate "MARIA RVTEN / NATA IN SCOTIA, VXOR ANTONII VAN DYCK PICTORIS, / E RVTORVM FAMILIA NOBILISSIMA ORIVNDA."; below image, lower left, in plate "Ant. van Dyck pinxit."; below image, lower right, in plate "S. à Bolswert sculpsit."; above image, center, in graphite "4"; above image, upper right, in brown ink "36"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "9971"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett WM: foolscap with five-pointed collar
