Manuscripts

Epicedium for John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater (d. 1649) and his wife Frances Stanley Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater (d.1636),with various epithalamia and acrostic verses celebrating the marriage of their daughter Magdalen to Sir Gervase Cutler, 1633

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Description: An elaborately decorated and painted collection of celebratory verses for the marriage of Lady Magdalen Egerton (d. 1664) to Sir Gervase Cutler (d. 1644), including two painted coats of arms fully blazoned in proper colors and gilt, a watercolor emblem of bowmen with the legend "Omnia Vincit Amor," and a painted and decorated family tree pedigree of the Egerton family. The whole written in an amateur calligraphic hand, with painted borders and minor floral decorations, and with additions in a slightly later hand to 1644. Two of the verses are signed: by "Th. Saintleger" and "Ab. Darbie."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1633
Call number: mssHM 68179
Creator: Darcie, Abraham (active 1625)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased by Maggs Bros. for the Huntington Library at Sotheby's (London) sale, July 8, 2004, their lot # 57.
Dimensions: 34 cm
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