Directions to a painter for describing our navall businesse, [17th century].

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Directions to a painter for describing our navall businesse, [17th century].

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Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of this satirical poem on the Anglo-Dutch War, followed by Andrew Marvell's poem, Clarindon's house-warming, a satire on Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, King Charles II's chief minister. The poem is followed, in a different hand, by a copy of Marvell's Advice to a Painter, a Latin epitaph for Cardinal Giulio Mazzarino and a copy of a condolence letter to Sir John Trott on the death of his son by Andrew Marvell, which contains Marvell's "sorry elogie of your son."

1 v. (59 p.) ; 19 x 15 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Mazarin, Jules, 1602-1661

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Waller Edmund 1606-1687

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