Sr. Francis Bacon Viscount St. Albans Lord Chancellor [graphic]Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker1738.eng"Portrait of Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a tall hat and ruff; in an ornamental oval with curtain beyond; below a putto holding a sceptre; books and scrolls in lower left; lettered state."--British Museum online catalogueTitle from text in image.Engraved after a painting by John Vanderbank. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1927,1126.1.7.5.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]."In the Possession of Martin Foulkes Esqr."--Below image.Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.Mounted opposite page 375 (leaf numbered '192' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.