Collection Online
John Evelyn
Medium
engraving
Measurements
23.9 × 16.9 cm (image) 24.5 × 17.4 cm (plate) 26.7 × 18.5 cm (sheet)
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Petitjean & Wickert 71 v/vi; Robert-Dumesnil 93 iv
Edition
5th of 6 states
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: R. Nanteüil
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: delineabat, & Scul.
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: Meliora Retinete. / (two lines of Greek verse by Isocrates)
printed (diagonally) in ink (in image) (on book) l.l.: IE (monogram)
printed in ink (in image) (on open page) l.r.: (symbol of two triangles)
Accession Number
511-5
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Costume Portraits
Subjects (specific)
authors books cartouches (ornament) cloaks collars (neckwear) diarists Evelyn, John gardeners
Movements
Baroque