Thomas Cockson
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Ariosto 's Orlando Furioso. |
Thomas Cockson, or Coxon (bap. 1569
Engravings
Among his works are
He also engraved the frontispiece to John Harington's translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso in 1591, a plate called The Revells of Christendome of 1609, which is a satirical print representing James I, Henry IV of France, Prince Maurice (Stadholder), and Christian IV of Denmark playing cards and backgammon against the Pope and his ecclesiastical brethren,[4] some sea pieces with shipping, and in 1636 a large folding plate with explanatory letterpress of various postures for musketeers and pike men, invented by a certain Lieutenant Clarke.[6]
Thomas Cockson often signed his prints with his initials interlaced; hence it is difficult to distinguish them from those of
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4068-6797-8.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5791. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Joseph Strutt, J. Davis (1785). A biographical dictionary: containing an historical account of all the Engravers, from the earliest period of the art of engraving to the present time, and a short list of their most esteemed works. London: J. Davis. pp. 208–209.
Thomas Cockson.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-922588-0.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Hind, Arthur Mayger. Engraving in england in the sizteenth & seventeenth centuries: A descriptive catalogue with introductions. pp. ixx–xx.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4179-5119-2.
- ^ Cust, Lionel Henry (1887). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 202.
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