"Benn's Club; group portrait of six aldermen around table in club, all seen seated whole-length and mostly to front, waiter standing at left polishing glass; l-r, Sir Thomas Rawlinson, Sir Henry Marshall, Edmond Ironside, Robert Alsop, Benn and John Blashford, a letter on the floor at his feet addressed to him at 'Bowcombe in the Isle of Wight', franked by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Publication date from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1231., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., and Sitters' names in ms. beneath image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street & John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhil
Title from item., Numbered '171' in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and In pencil in lower right corner: John Dowie.
Title etched above image., Engraved after a miniature by Zincke which was done after a painting by Peter Lely., Date supplied by cataloger., and Text etched within border surrounding circular image: Hôc juvenem egregium praestanti munere donat. Virg.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 54 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 : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; sheet 20.7 x 16.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title and complete loss of imprint.
Publisher:
Pubd. Dec. 3, 1800, by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 67 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper, à la poupée ; sheet 14 x 14.5 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text and some loss of image at top and bottom edges., With Richard Bull's manuscript title "Cowley" written in ink below image, on mounting page., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pubd. Dec. 3, 1800, by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from caption below image. and Place and date of publication based on similarity to portraits in: Perrault, C. Les hommes illustrés qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècle, 1696-1700.
Title from caption below image., Text at top of image: "pindarici fontis qui non expalluit haustus" and "ob. 1667, aet. 49.", Date and place of publication surmised from data on similar print from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,59.4., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.