Portrait_of_Edward_Coke_(1669)_by_R_White.jpg
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Summary
| Artist |
R. White.
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| Title |
original
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Latina:
Vera Effigies Viri Clariſs EDOARDI COKE Equitis aurati nuper Capitalis Iuſticiarij ad Placita coram Rege tenenda aſsignati.
translation
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English:
True portrait from life of the illustrious EDWARD COKE, knight, recently appointed
Chief Justice of the King's Bench
(literally "Chief Justice for pleas to be held before the King").
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| Description |
English:
An engraved portrait of Sir
Edward Coke
(1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634), an English barrister, judge and, later, opposition politician, who is considered to be the greatest jurist of the
Elizabethan
and
Jacobean eras
.
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| Date | 1669 |
| Medium | engraving on paper . |
| Inscriptions | below portrait : "Vera Effigies Viri Clariſs EDOARDI COKE / Equitis aurati nuper Capitalis Iuſticiarij / ad Placita coram Rege tenenda aſsignati / R: White sculpuit [engraved by R. White]". |
| Source/Photographer | Frontispiece of Edward Coke (1669) The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; Concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminal Causes. The Fourth Edition. Authore Edw. Coke, Milite (4 th ed.), London : Printed for A[ndrew] Crooke , W[illiam] Leake , A[bel] Roper , F[rancis] Tyton, T[homas] Dring , T[homas] Collins, J[ohn] Place, W[illiam] Place, J[ohn] Starkey, T[homas] Bassett, R[obert] Pawlett, S[amuel] Heyrick, and G[eorge] Dawes, booksellers in Fleetstreet and Holborn OCLC : 9515015 . |
| Other versions | File:The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; Concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminal Causes (4th ed, 1669).pdf |
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