IDENTIFIERS
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id:	240018
accession number:	P.14970-R

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 9 January 2020
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: After a portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), (c.1675, location of the original portrait by Lely is unknown, but many copies and variants exist, including the portrait after Lely by an unknown artist in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, NPG 153). Life-sized head and shoulders portrait of Charles II as King, facing right, looking out at the spectator, within a decorative oval frame of laurel leaves bound with ribbon and studded with pearls. He wears an armoured breast plate over a richly embroidered doublet, a lace cravat and wig.
title:	print

NOTES
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type: history note
value: (?); Collection des Fürsten zu Oettingen-Wallerstein in Meitingen; sale, Leipzig, C. G. Boerner, 28 May 1935 (25), Reichsmark 110 to Alfred Strölin; from whom bought by John Charrington and given to the Fitzwilliam Museum, c.1935. Charrington's handwritten documentation relating to the sale gives the price code as: '£RO', which probably represents £50.00. Charrington probably brought the print into the Fitzwilliam collection fairly soon after the sale date at the end of May, 1935.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Given by John Charrington, c.1935

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240018





TECHNIQUES
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mezzotint

CATEGORIES
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category: print

DATING
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creation date:	1675 - 1676
creation date earliest:	1675
creation date latest:	1676
culture:	17th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Blooteling, Abraham
maker: Lely, Peter