_Engraved Portrait_ (Vol. iii., p. 209.).--This is the portrait of Samuel
Clarke, the ejected minister of Bennet Fink, London. I have three
impressions of this engraving now before me. Two of these are in an
illustrated Granger, and are in different states, the earlier one having no
shading in the background. The third copy is prefixed to--
"A Collection of the Lives of Ten Eminent Divines, Famous in their
Generations for Learning, Prudence, Piety, and painfuless in the work
of the Ministry, &c. By Sa. Clarke, Preacher of the Gospel in St.
Bennet Fink, London, 1662." 4to.
Very likely the same plate had been previously used for some other of
Clarke's numerous publications. At the end of the verses beneath the
portrait, my copies have "P.V.A.M. _fecit_," which, I suppose, are the
initials of Peter Vinke.