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Title:
Title-page to John Baptist Porta's 'Natural Magick', with title in a cartouche, flanked by statues of Art and Nature, with cartouches representing the four elements in each corner, with realm of Chaos above, with portrait of the author containing sun and flaming heart below
Object name(s):
visual representation > print; visual representation > book-illustration > title-page
Brief description:
Title-page to John Baptist Porta's 'Natural Magick', with title in a cartouche, flanked by statues of Art and Nature, with cartouches representing the four elements in each corner, with realm of Chaos above, with portrait of the author containing sun and flaming heart below
Collection:
Ashmolean Museum
Associated place:
Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London
Place association:
place of publication
Inscription content:
lettered title: Natvral / Magick: / in XX Bookes / by / Iohn Baptist Porta / a Neopolitane:, at centre, in a cartouche, lettered
Inscription content:
lettered production information: R Gaywood fecit Lond; / 1658, at centre, in a cartouche, lettered
Inscription content:
collector's mark: Bibl Bodl Ex Dono Fr. Douce, above, on secondary support, stamped in black ink, Bodleian Library Francis Douce (Lugt 5115)
Object name:
visual representation > print; visual representation > book-illustration > title-page
Object number:
WA2003.Douce.13196
Object production date:
1658
Date - association:
date of creation
Date - earliest / single:
1658
Object production person:
Richard Gaywood
Person's association:
printmaker
Person's birth date:
1630 - 1680
Responsible department/section:
Western Art
Text reason:
Collections online record

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/9107b60b-3dde-3e70-ab67-ad23a14a9d62

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/9107b60b-3dde-3e70-ab67-ad23a14a9d62, Ashmolean Museum, CC BY-NC

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