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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D8760/F/LIB/9/6/45
Former Reference
D3311/140/45
Title
Print showing engraved portrait of Herri met de Bles, Flemish opainter
Date
[late 18th cent]
Description
Half-length portrait "Henrico Blesio Bovinati" [Herri met de Bles of Bouvignes], with niche containing owl in niche in top right hand corner and Latin inscription at top "Bubonem pro nota tabulis suis appinxit, vixitque circa an. 1550" [he painted an owl in his pictures as his distinguishing sign and lived in about the year 1550], numbered 14 in top right hand corner.
Paper size 214 x 30 cm, image size 13 x 16 cm
Extent
1 item
Level
Item
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Format
Printed
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Bles; Herri met de (c 1510-1560); Flemish painter
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