Caption
Portrait of Thomas Percy, Series 10: Dutch and Foreign Events, 1587-1612, print, album page, Series number, 356, 380?, November 15, 1605. Half-length portrait facing left, in an oval, at the bottom two medallions with scenes of the capture of himself and his servant for the Gunpowder Plot. Between these three cartouches with texts in German and Latin. Numbered bottom left: 356., printmaker: workshop of Frans Hogenberg, Cologne, 1605 - 1607, North Rhine-Westphalia, paper, engraving, gravure, height 170 mm x width 200 mm, Person, Thomas Percy, Gunpowder Treason, England, Period, 1605-11, A detailed engraved portrait of a man shown from the waist up within an oval frame wearing a wide-brimmed hat adorned with a feather and a decorative band, a lace-trimmed collar, a fitted doublet with visible seams and buttons, and a moustache with a pointed goatee, surrounded by decorative hatch shading; flanking the central oval are rectangular panels filled with handwritten script; below the portrait are two circular vignettes depicting groups of armed men in period clothing and helmets carrying pikes and spears, set against scenes with a walled city and soldiers in formation, with additional rectangular panels of script between and around the vignettes and fine engraved border lines framing the composition.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26B46_008
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