Framed in an oval, the writer George Saville Carey is shown looking to his left while holding a mirror up in his extended right arm and holding a theater mask in his left arm, bent at the elbow
A half-length portrait of Horace Walpole at middle age dressed in a purple jacket and vest with a ruffled shirt. His face is in three-quarter view as he gazes to his proper left. The top of a white feather quill is visible at the lower left. At some p...
Portrait of John Lilburne; bust body positioned to the right but looking to front; with short curly hair and moustache; wearing a wide collar with scalloped lace edges, over a doublet; in a double-ruled oval and shields at top left and right
Alternative Title:
Mr. Iohn Lilburn, a pious young gentleman of about 22 or 23 yeares of age ... Mr. John Lilburn, a pious young gentleman of about 22 or 23 yeares of age ... Portrait of John Lilburne
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Attribution to Hollar, title, and publication date in British Museum catalogue.
Portrait of the head of John Speed after the frontispiece to his British Isles atlas Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (London, 1631 onwards); the plate also appeared in the other editions of his atlases).
Alternative Title:
Aet. M. viri clarissimi Joannis Speed Farndoniae nati in Comitatu Cestriae
Ink and pencil copy of an eighteenth-century engraved portrait of John Watson, Church of England clergyman and antiquary. Watson is drawn half-length directed to the right, with his head almost in profile, right hand on hip, left holding a scroll in f...
