Abraham Cowley – Vintage Print
![Abraham Cowley, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/24/240038be60ff-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic print captures Abraham Cowley in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Abraham Cowley
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The sitter is Abraham Cowley, the royalist poet and essayist, and this print reproduces an earlier painting of him. The caption card credits the original to either Sir Peter Lely or Mary Beale, a painter whose portraits were widely known in 17th-century England, so the attribution should be read as unsettled. Cowley (1618–1667) was admired for his odes and essays, and he spent part of the Interregnum in exile in France with the royalist court, which gives a portrait of him a useful link to the culture of the Restoration.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | Repro. of painting by Sir Peter Lely or Mrs. Beale. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Pub. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,210 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156706 |
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