Bambridge (Depy. Warden of the Fleet Prison) / [graphic]

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Title: Bambridge (Depy. Warden of the Fleet Prison) / [graphic]
Creator: Graves, Robert, 1798-1873, printmaker
Contributor: Patch, Thomas, 1725-1782, artist.
Whiteley, T. H., active 1820-1821, publisher.
Published / Created: [1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: T.H. Whitely
Abstract: "Portrait of Bambridge, full-length in profile to right, with his left hand resting on a chair back, wearing a long coat over waistcoat and a wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Copy of a 1769 etching by Thomas Patch, which likely depicts a person other than the warden Bambridge; see no. 4343 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 4.
Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was issued.
Plate from: Caulfield, J. Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons. London : T.H. Whitely, 1820, v. 3, opposite page 28.
Bound in opposite page 47 in Lord Rosebery's extra-illustrated copy of: Burn, J.S. History of the Fleet marriages. London : Rivingtons [etc.], 1834.
Provenance: Volume formerly owned by Lord Rosebery and heavily extra-illustrated by him. Sold at Sotheby's, May 1933 (Rosebery sale). Thorp; August 1939.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 22.1 x 13.8 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English