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Verso: Portrait of Francis Quarles, half-length with shoulder-length curly hair, moustache and small beard, directed to right glancing towards the viewer, right hand outstretched holding a quill, wearing a dark coat edged with fur and fastened near the neck, a plain collar with a tassel tie, a shield above to left, window with view of a house and palace in landscape and an arm reaching from the clouds with a laurel wreath behind to right, frontispiece to Francis Quarles's 'Argalus and Parthenia'
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Oxford
Title
Recto: Title-page to Francis Quarles's 'Argalus and Parthenia: The Argument of the History', with two female personifications standing in a classical room, flanking a curtain covering a text, two putti above, Envy below Verso: Portrait of Francis Quarles, half-length with shoulder-length curly hair, moustache and small beard, directed to right glancing towards the viewer, right hand outstretched holding a quill, wearing a dark coat edged with fur and fastened near the neck, a plain collar with a
Date
1626
Accession number
WA1863.13658
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.
Work type