How you can use this image
Notes
Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account.
Title-page to Francis Bacon's 'The Historie of Life and Death', with title in an oval, with two old people to the left and two mourners to the right, with a pastoral scene above featuring a woman with a crown and a sword and Time, with portrait of the author below, flanked by two medallions depicting death and decay
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Oxford
Title
Title-page to Francis Bacon's 'The Historie of Life and Death', with title in an oval, with two old people to the left and two mourners to the right, with a pastoral scene above featuring a woman with a crown and a sword and Time, with portrait of the author below, flanked by two medallions depicting death and decay
Date
1638
Accession number
WA2003.Douce.13273
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.
Work type
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Beaumont Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2PH England
This venue is open to the public. Not all artworks are on display. If you want to see a particular artwork, please contact the venue.
View venue
-
Sr Thomas Urchard Knight Ashmolean Museum, Oxford -
Portrait of Edward Dering Ashmolean Museum, Oxford -
Portrait of Samuel Keme Ashmolean Museum, Oxford -
Portrait of Sir James Campbell Ashmolean Museum, Oxford -
Portrait of G. Strode Ashmolean Museum, Oxford -
Portrait of J. Woodall Ashmolean Museum, Oxford -
Portrait of John Pym Ashmolean Museum, Oxford - 45 more