"Portrait of French playwright Molière, after Bourdon; three-quarter length, sitting at desk, directed to left, hands folded on table, wearing long curled wig and loose-fitting gown; in rectangular frame, with spread wings and ivy in upper part, and a...
Alternative Title:
Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière
Description:
Title from from text within cartouche at top of image.
"Portrait, half-length, three-quarters to right but looking to front, wearing long wig, neckcloth and gown, left hand seen; oval frame resting on plinth"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Robert Gosling
Subject (Name):
Betterton, Thomas, 1635?-1710, and Betterton, Thomas, 1635?-1710.
"Portrait standing three-quarter length between Comedy and Tragedy, smiling towards the latter on the right, but allowing the former to tug him towards her; after Reynolds (Mannings 700); with separate plate."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved on separate plate printed beneath plate with image.
Publisher:
Sold by Edwd. Fisher, at the Golden Head the south side of Leicester Square, John Boydell engraver, at the Unicorn, in Cheapside, and E. Bakewell, & H. Parker, printsellers in Cornhill, opposite Birchin Lane, London