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Collection Item: Ferdinando, 2nd Lord Fairfax
Ferdinando, 2nd Lord Fairfax
Basic info
- Collection
- Fine Art
- Title
- Ferdinando, 2nd Lord Fairfax
- Object name
- Painting
- Object category
- Painting
- Creators
- Bower, Edward (Artist)
- Description
- Seated half-length figure facing right; on the right a pile of armour silhouetted against a bright sky; a ray of light descends above it with the inscription 'HINC ILLA' ('Hence those things', i.e. the armour was used in God's name). Behind the sitter a red curtain is draped; in the top left corner the family crest (lion passant regardant sable; supporters, dexter, a lion guardant sable; sinister, a bay horse proper. Motto, 'FARE FAC').
- Production date start
- 1646
- Period
- Stuart
- Charles I and Civil War
Identification
- Object number
- YORAG : 977
- Alternative number
- 139
- 409
- 706
- Number of objects
- 1
- ID
- 20000537
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Oil on canvas (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Canvas height 134.5 cm
- Canvas width 105.5 cm
- Frame height 155.0 cm
- Frame width 126.5 cm
- Frame depth 5.0 cm
Production
- Creators
- Bower, Edward (Artist)
- Technique
- Painted
