Nicholas Stone Junr. statuary and architect, ob. 165 [art original].

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Title: Nicholas Stone Junr. statuary and architect, ob. 165 [art original].
Alternative Title: Nicholas Stone junior statuary and architect
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of Nicholas Stone Junior (bap. 1618-1674), English, sculptor and architect, second son of Nicholas Stone Senior (1585-1657).
Description: Title from inscription in ink below image on mount.
Inscription in ink, above oval image: This may be Nicholas Stone Jun. Painted at Rome ano. 1638 as he mentions in his journal.
Inscription in ink, below oval image: a sketch of a head pianted in Oyl in an oval. Sold in Mr. Gibbons [illegible] sale, called Mr. Stone.
Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Stone in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 23.
George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Provenance: Purchased by Horace Walpole from Vertue's widow. Sold to Evans at the Strawberry Hill sale, day viii, lot 112. Purchased by Wilmarth S. Lewis from Drake, December 1949.
Extent: 1 drawing : oval image 9.5 x 8 cm, on sheet 11 x 10 cm, mounted on sheet 12.5 x 11 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Portrait drawings
Ink drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Stone, Nicholas, bap. 1618-1647,
Subject (Topic): Artists
British
Architects
Subjects: Stone, Nicholas, bap. 1618-1647
Artists > British
Architects > British > Portraits
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: George Vertue, Nicholas Stone Junior Statuary and Architect. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.