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Thomas Parr c.1635
Engraving | 15.5 x 10.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 659804
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An engraving of Thomas Parr (d. 1635), reputed to have lived to the age of 152. A short half-length portrait, bearded, seated in a chair against a pillow, wearing skull cap, plain coat and collar. This print is lettered at the upper right: "C.V.Dalen sculp:"; along the bottom: "The Olde, Old, very Olde Man or Thomas Par, the … / The Strand, being aged 152 yeares and odd Monethes 1635".
The print formed part of an album of portrait prints assembled by Cassiano and his younger brother Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo in Rome. Described in an early nineteenth-century inventory of prints in George III's library as Heads of English illustrious Personages, the album was dismantled later in the nineteenth century and incorporated into the sequences of British portrait prints in the collection.
For more information see Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre, 3 vols, Royal Collection Trust 2017, part of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné, cat. no. 1491.Provenance
From the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-22 October 1657); inherited by his brother, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-1689); sold by Carlo Antonio's grandson to Clement XI, 1703; acquired by Cardinal Alessandro Albani by 1714, from whom purchased by George III in 1762
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