Ben: Johnson [graphic]

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Title: Ben: Johnson [graphic]
Alternative Title: Ben Jonson
Creator: Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
Contributor: Oliver, Isaac, 1556?-1617, artist.
John and Paul Knapton (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: 1738.
Publication Place: London and Great Britain England London
Publisher: Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
Abstract: "Portrait of Ben Jonson, bust seen in profile to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a draped coat; in an ornamental oval decorated with roses and laurel; below a young satyr holding a sceptre with a fool's head; books and a theatrical mask in lower right; state with publisher's address."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text in image.
Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751].
"In the collection of Dr. Mead"--Below image. The note refers to the miniature by Oliver from which this engraving was made.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 28 (leaf numbered '86' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Provenance: Formerly owned by R.B. Sheridan (the dramatist's grandson), who undertook the copious extra-illustration of the volumes. Later owned by Sheridan's descendant Lady Wavertree. Sotheby's, 25 May 1954 (Lady Wavertree sale), lot 266, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 36.7 x 22.9 cm, on sheet 42.7 x 27.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English