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Miniature portrait dated 1581 by Isaac Oliver (c.1565-1617) of Sir George Cary (c. 1541 – 15 February 1616), of Cockington in the parish of Tor Mohun in Devon, Lord Deputy of Ireland from May 1603 to February 1604, a Member of Parliament for Dartmouth (1586) and for Devon (1588). Portrait inscribed "Free from all filthie fraude, Anno Domini 1581 aetatis suae 57" ("in the year of his age 57"). In 1920 the item was at Montagu House, Whitehall, property of John Montagu Douglas Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch (d.1935), per Fairfax Harrison, 1920.
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| Source | Williamson, George Charles, The History of Portrait Miniatures , 1904, plate XII (between pages 28-9), text p.32 [1] . Also published in Fairfax Harrison (of Belvoir House, Fauquier County, Virginia), The Devon Carys , 2 vols., New York, 1920, vol.1, frontispiece [2] |
| Author | Painted by Isaac Oliver (c.1565-1617) |
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