Joseph Carreras in the Common Parlour at Houghton / [graphic]

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Title: Joseph Carreras in the Common Parlour at Houghton / [graphic]
Creator: Green, Valentine, 1739-1813, printmaker
Contributor: Farington, George, 1752-1788, artist.
Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723, artist.
Boydell, John, 1720-1804, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 November 1775]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Novr. 1, 1775, by Jno. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Abstract: Half-length, portrait of Joseph Carreras, Spanish poet and chaplain to Catherine of Braganza
Description: Title from text below image.
Retouched state, with inscription beneath sitter's name erased and re-engraved in smaller letters; this is the third state according to Whitman, and the second state according to J.C. Smith.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Lettered below title with the measurements of the original picture and the Walpole crest with motto 'Fari Quae Sentiat'.
Plate 15 in the first volume of: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia ... London : J. & J. Boydell, 1788.
On verso in Walpole's hand: F. Walker.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole with his ms. note.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 17.5 x 12.5 cm
Edition: [State 3].
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1775
Material: mezzotint ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Carreras, Joseph,
Subjects: Carreras, Joseph
England > London > 1775
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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