Titel
Benjamin Rvdyerd
Datierung
1627 -1632
Beteiligte Person
Technik
Wasserzeichen
nicht identifiziert
Maße in mm
Inschrift
Sr. BENIAMIN RVDYERD SVRVEYOR OF HIS MATYES. COVRT OF WARDES AND LIVERYES. An°. Dom. 1632. AEtatis 54. An° 1627: Could mei, as heere his Figure, sei his Myndi, wordes would bee speachles. wheare a Soule wee fynde Soe High, soe Humble. Knowledge wth. out Pryde, Wth. Knowledge Zeale. whoe makes Virtue his Guydi Not the Tymes. Whoe Chosi rather to bei Good Then Great, or Rich; Whoe soe well unders Food, yet practiz´d not, court artes: for all his Frends Found that he lou´d thom for Themsolues, not Ends. Fus beyond reach of Brybes. Soi constant still As Fortuni wants that Good, Nature that Ill, Wch. hee can wishe, or feare. And soe doth liui As he doth lack a Foe eue´n to forgiue.
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Anmerkungen
Innerhalb des Plattenrandes beschnitten.
Handbuch / Literatur
Hind 1952 (Engraving in England), VI.6.30.I;
Nagler Künstlerlexikon 1835-1852, III.36.19;
Drugulin Porträt-Kat. 1860, 248.17855