Record

Document Reference	Pw V 300
Title	MS poem attributed to Henry Savile entitled 'Advice to a Painter to Draw the Duke of Yorke'; 1673
Date	1673
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of 117 lines. Poem more commonly attributed to Henry Savile (1642-1687) (see Index, ELM, II, part 2 p 25). The advice is dated 1673 and Beal dates this copy to the late 17th century (Index, II, MaA 463).
Title Of Work	Advice to a Painter to Draw the Duke of Yorke
First Line of Poem	Spread a large Canvas Painter to Containe
Last Line of Poem	Till that stroke's struck which they cannot repreive
Language	English
Physical Description	One sheet folded once to form two folios
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Pot, large, surmounted by quatrefoil and fleur de lis, containing letters FRC, approx. 117 x 52 mm Italic
Watermark	Pot
Related Material	Index, ELM II, MaA 463
	Crum, Index, S 1099
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 40/77
	For other MS concordances see Index, ELM, II, MaA 434-62 & MaA 464-75
Publication Note	Advice to a Painted to draw the Duke by (London 1679)
	A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689) ??
	Poems on Affairs of State, vol I (1963), pp 213-19
	Publication states that it is 'by A-M-L Esq.'

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA11021	Savile; Henry (c.1642-1687); Mr; M.P. Newark 1677 1665; elected 1673 but election declared void 1677	c.1642-1687
NA1121	Marvell; Andrew (1621-1678); poet	1621-1678

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