- 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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