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Title: Of a tree cut in paper

Author: Waller, Edmund

Date(s): 1668 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 36

Contents: Praising the skill of a young woman in artistically cutting trees out of

paper

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Title: The title of the first part Sylva di Sylvio

Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip

Date(s): 166- or 167- ?

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Introductory verse to a series of translations, proposing that they are designed for moral profit rather than artistic edification; heavily revised and then cancelled, perhaps draft.

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Archive Print part

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The true effigies of the most eminent painters : and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe. Curiously engraven on copper-plates. Together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works... [etc.]

Resta, Sebastiano

Printed in the year 1694

Imprint taken from additional engraved title-page, bound following p. 18; a second engraved title-page follows, with Antwerp imprint of Jean Meyssens, 1649. Translated from Italian. Text by Sebast...

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Alexander the Great (image 15)
Archive Piece

Alexander the Great (image 15)

[ca. 1461-1483]

The roundel depicts Alexander the Great, king of Macedon (29). The artist has user a generic warrior model, almost identical to that used for Joshua (15).

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Title: Reflections on Mr Dolls drawing my picture

Author: Style, Oliver

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt 10

Contents: Reflections on a life largely spend abroad in Asia instead of on learning

the fashionable art of flattery in order to become wealthy. Occasioned by

having his portrait painted, the artist perhaps being William Dolle, the

engraver

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Calendar: October (fol. 10v)
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Calendar: October (fol. 10v)

[ca. 142-?]

The border is historiated with four saints: an unidentified bishop with a mitre and a crosier; St. Luke the Apostle and Evangelist as an artist; St Jude Thaddeus holding a book and a sword; and (proba...

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