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Description found in Archives

Title

Prince Rupert. 

Online (2)

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Item (linked) part of

Temporary record for orphaned ICON records

Bilingual equivalent

Prince Rupert

Date(s)

ca. 1646-1660

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 print : engraving (third state) on paper ; 26.6 x 18.8 cm.
Support: (sheet)
Platemark: (platemark)

Scope and content

This print is based on a portrait by Sir Anthony Van Dyck, painted when Rupert first visited England in 1636-37.
This print is the third state of this engraving, identified by the erased name of the original publisher.
See Facing History (National Archives of Canada, 1993), p. 2, cat. no. 2, for information about the sitter and the print.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
99: Closed pending processing
To be viewed with the assistance of the
Portrait Gallery of Canada.
Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-027585
90: Open

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Artist: Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641,
Engraver: Snyers, Hendrik, ca. 1612-after 1648.
Depicted: Rupert, 1619-1682. Prince, Count Palatine,
Rupert, Prince, Count Palatine, 1619-1682.

Additional information

Availability of other formats note
Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note
Exhibition title: Facing History : portraits from the National Archives of Canada / Face à Face avec l' histoire : portraits des Archives nationales du Canada. Curators: Lydia Foy, Sylvie Gervais, Peter Robertson, National Archives of Canada, cat. no.: cat. no. 2. Further venue: National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, 1993.05.27-1993.09.06.
Exhibition title: Treasured Memories 6. Curators: Crawley, Michal, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, ON. 2002.02.18-2002.11.17.

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscription: in the plate, b.: ILLVSTRISSIMVS PRINCEPS ROBBERTVS, COMES PALATINVS RHENI, EQVE / S / ORDINIS STI. GEORGII HIPPARCHVS SVA MAITIS. MAGNEA BRITANNIAE, ETCA.; l.l.: Antonius van Dyck pinxit.; l.c.: Henricus Snyers sculpsit.; l.r.: [inscription erased from plate, "Ioannes Meyssens"] exudit Antuerpiae [Antwerp]

Subject heading

Rupert,

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON75327

MIKAN no.

2909367