Thomas Cecil
Illustration — Thomas Cecil Thomas Cecil (fl. 1626 – 1640) was an English engraver who worked entirely with the graver, and whose work flourished about 1630.
Thomas Cecil
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Illustration — Thomas Cecil Thomas Cecil (fl. 1626 – 1640) was an English engraver who worked entirely with the graver, and whose work flourished about 1630.
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• Illustration — Archibald Armstrong engraved by Thomas Cecil. His engravings are finely executed, among them the first edition of Thomas Heywood's 1635 Hierarchie of the Bleesed Angels and Thomas Kedermister of Langley, dated 1628. He was working in London from 1627 to 1635. The portrait of Henry VIII prefixed to some copies of the first edition of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's History of Henry is by Cecil. His portraits are often from his own drawings.
"The right noble knight John Talbot E: of Shrewsbury," engraving, by the English engraver Thomas Cecill. 175 mm x 117 mm. Courtesy of the British Museum, London.
Thomas Cecill · British Museum [1]
Frontispiece to Sylva sylvarum, or, a naturall history in ten centuries, 1626, by Francis Bacon (1561-1626). STC 1168, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Francis Bacon (author) / Thomas Cecill (engraver) · Houghton Library
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