Michael Dahl [graphic]

Description

Title: Michael Dahl [graphic]
Creator: Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Contributor: Dahl, Michael, 1656-1743, artist.
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Published / Created: [approximately 1762]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Publisher: Strawberry Hill Press
Abstract: "Portrait of Michael Dahl, half-length, in an oval, slightly turned to the right, a mantle about his shoulders and a banyan cap on his head."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared.
Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780].
Probably engraved after Dahl's self-portrait in watercolor that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Vol. 4, p. 6"--Above image in upper right.
Mounted on page 57 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 17.3 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1762
Etchings England London 1762
Material: engraving and etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Dahl, Michael, 1659?-1743,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Dahl, Michael, 1659?-1743
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1762
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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