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Frontispiece to James Howell's 'Lexicon Tetraglotton' with alternate title in cartouche, with landscape scene including four female figures emblematising Spain, France, Italy, and England, with a helmeted male figure to the right, with initials to identify the figures throughout
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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Frontispiece to James Howell's 'Lexicon Tetraglotton' with alternate title in cartouche, with landscape scene including four female figures emblematising Spain, France, Italy, and England, with a helmeted male figure to the right, with initials to identify the figures throughout
Date
1660
Accession number
WA2003.Douce.13270
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.
Work type
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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