[Richard Thompson] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Richard Thompson] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Richard Tompson
Creator: Place, Francis, 1647-1728, printmaker
Contributor: Soest, Gerard, approximately 1600-1681, artist.
Tempest, Pierce, 1653-1717, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1680 and 1690]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: P. Tempest
Abstract: "Portrait of Richard Tompson, half-length in an oval, long hair, wearing neckcloth and robe."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from later state.
First state of the plate, before sitter's name added below image. See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,6.175.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 152 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.
Sitter's name and occupation written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand: Thompson, printseller.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : oval image 22.1 x 19.4 cm, on sheet 26.3 x 20.7 cm
Edition: [State 1].
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1680
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Tompson, Richard, -1693,
Subjects: Tompson, Richard, -1693
England > London > 1680
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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