<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>[Portrait of George Robins sitting at a table] [art original]</dc:title><dc:creator>Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer), artist</dc:creator><dc:date>[1843]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>The auctioneer George Robins is shown full-length in profile to the left, sitting at a small table draped with a tablecloth, an inkwell and a goblet on the table in front of him. He sits on the 16th-century oak chair from Glastonbury Abbey, an item from Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill that Robins auctioned off in 1842</dc:description><dc:description>Title devised by cataloger.</dc:description><dc:description>Signed with initials and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image.</dc:description><dc:description>Bound in as page 161 in volume 1 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>