Ralph_de_Hengham.jpg

Summary

Wenceslaus Hollar : English: Engraving of Ralph de Hengham's monumental brass (no longer extant) in St Paul's Cathedral, London. ( Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL) Create new Wikidata item based on this file )
Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677) wikidata:Q448555 s:en:Author:Wenceslaus Hollar q:cs:Václav Hollar
Wenceslaus Hollar
Description printmaker, cartographer, illustrator, graphic artist, engraver and drawer
Date of birth/death 13 July 1607 Edit this at Wikidata 25 March 1677 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Prague London
Work period 1600 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q448555
Title
English: Engraving of Ralph de Hengham's monumental brass (no longer extant) in St Paul's Cathedral , London.
Description
English: A portrait of English judge Sir Ralph de Hengham (1235 – 18 May 1311).
Date 1658
date QS:P571,+1658-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium engraving .
Inscriptions along margin : "PER VERSUS PATET HOS, ANGLORUM QUOD IACET HIC FLOS; LEGUM QUI DICTAVIT VERA STATUTA; EX HENGHAM DICTUS RADULPHUS VIR BENEDICTUS" ["By (means of) these verses it is known that here lies the flower of the English; The blessed man called Radulphus of Hengham; of the laws which he drew up, they were truly established"].
Source/Photographer [1] ; originally published in William Dugdale (1658) The History of St Pauls Cathedral in London from its Foundation untill these Times: Extracted out of Originall Charters. Records. Leiger Books, and other Manuscripts. Beautified with Sundry Prospects of the Church, Figures of Tombes, and Monuments. (Appendix in Historiam Ecclesiæ Cathedralis S. Pauli, diversa, ad majorem istius operis illustrationem continens. The Daunce of Machabree, made by Dan John Lydgate.) , London : Tho. Warren OCLC : 496420614 .

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