Michael Dahl [graphic]

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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 59 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.
1 print : engraving and etching on wove paper ; sheet 16.5 x 11.8 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of volume and page number from top edge.
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 17.3 x 14 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 4

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

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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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12698695
Object ID (OID)
16193403

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