Colley Cibber anno aetatis 67 / [graphic]

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Title: Colley Cibber anno aetatis 67 / [graphic]
Creator: Miller, John, 1715-1790?, printmaker
Contributor: Vanloo, Jean-Baptiste, 1684-1745, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1792]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait of Colley Cibber aged 67, after Van Loo, bust-length, turned to the right, with long curly wig, in oval frame with cartouche and laurel wreath at the bottom."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched in bottom portion of image.
Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue.
Possibly the frontispiece to: Cibber, C. An apology for the life of Colley Cibber ... London : Printed for R. and J. Dodsley ..., [1756]. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 7 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance: Spencer, ex dono Annie Burr Lewis; June 1933. Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 13.5 x 9 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints England 1792
Etchings England London 1792
Engravings England London 1792
Material: etching and engraving with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757,
Subjects: Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757
England > 1792
England > London > 1792
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

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