Conyers Middleton, D.D Principal Librarian to the University of Cambridge : from an original in the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole / [graphic]

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Description

Title
Conyers Middleton, D.D Principal Librarian to the University of Cambridge : from an original in the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole / [graphic]
Creator
Faber, John, 1695?-1756, printmaker
Contributor
Eccardt, John Giles, -1779, artist.
Faber, John, 1695?-1756, publisher.
Published / Created
[1751]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Sold [by J. Faber] at the Golden Head near the church, Bloomsbury Square
Abstract

"Portrait, half-length directed to right, wearing dark clerical vestments, bands and a short white wig, looking towards the viewer with his hands on his knees."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title engraved below image.
Printseller identified as J. Faber in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Price 1s. 6d."
After a painting by Eccardt, commissioned by Horace Walpole, that hung in Mr. Walpole's Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill. Cf. National Portrait Gallery, London, no.: NPG 626.
Mounted on page 92 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 33.1 x 23 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Reproductions
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1751
Material
mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Middleton, Conyers, 1683-1750,
Subjects
Middleton, Conyers, 1683-1750
England > London > 1751
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13207975
Object ID (OID)
16193087

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