Killigrew (Sir Thomas, 1618-1682, subject). [Portrait of Sir Thomas Killigrew as a pilgrim], c.1680, mezzotint on laid paper, unsigned, engraved quotation in lower margin 'You see my Face, and if you'd know my Minde/Tis this: I hate my self, and all Mankinde', mounted, framed and glazed (not examined out of frame), visible area 34.5 x 24.5 cm (Qty: 1) Provenance: Malcolm Rogers CBE FSA (1948-), British art historian and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1994 to 2015. O'Donoghue, Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits: Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, II p.695 no. 8 (unattributed; a proof, without the distich in the the lower margin). Killigrew was a dramatist, theatre director, page of honour to Charles I, and groom of the bedchamber to Charles II. The catalogue of the Pepys Library in Cambridge, however, identifies the sitter as Abraham Simon (1617-1692), medallist. In the first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography (1892) the portrait is attributed to William Faithorne (vol. 31, p. 144).
Killigrew (Sir Thomas, 1618-1682, subject). [Portrait of Sir Thomas Killigrew as a pilgrim], c.1680, mezzotint on laid paper, unsigned, engraved quotation in lower margin 'You see my Face, and if you'd know my Minde/Tis this: I hate my self, and all Mankinde', mounted, framed and glazed (not examined out of frame), visible area 34.5 x 24.5 cm (Qty: 1) Provenance: Malcolm Rogers CBE FSA (1948-), British art historian and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1994 to 2015. O'Donoghue, Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits: Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, II p.695 no. 8 (unattributed; a proof, without the distich in the the lower margin). Killigrew was a dramatist, theatre director, page of honour to Charles I, and groom of the bedchamber to Charles II. The catalogue of the Pepys Library in Cambridge, however, identifies the sitter as Abraham Simon (1617-1692), medallist. In the first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography (1892) the portrait is attributed to William Faithorne (vol. 31, p. 144).
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