IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225403 accession number: P.14794-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Thursday 3 January 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Engraving on laid paper. Portrait of Thomas Hobson, half-length, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, ruff, and cloak, and reaching into a drawstring pouch held at his waist with his right hand. A wall or post at the far left and archway behind and to the right, are delineated by darker areas of cross-hatching. Title and production details within the image at upper left and right: 'Mr Hobson; obyt ano 1630 / vixit annos 86'. A verse engraved below: 'Laugh not to see so plaine a Man in print, / The shadow's homely, yet ther's something in't, / Witnes the Bagg he wear's though seeming poore / The fertile Mother of a thousand more: / He was a thrueing [thriving] Man, through lawfull Gaine, / And wealthy grew by warrantable paine; / Then laugh at them that spend, not them yt gather, / Like thriueing [thriving] Sonnes of such a thrifty Father.'. Below the verse at lower left: 'Cum privileg: Are to be soud [sold?] by P. Stent [excised words] I Payne fecit'. This is the third state of the engraving, as documented by Globe, no. 176, p. 71. An inscription in graphite at lower right: 'N.15'. Watermark: fleur-de-lis. title: print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: unknown STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225403 TECHNIQUES ---------- engraving CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1630 - 1639 creation date earliest: 1630 creation date latest: 1639 culture: 17th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Payne, John maker: Stent, Peter