- Creator:
- Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1738 and 1742]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of John Fisher, bust-length, in an oval lettered with the title and surmounted by the papal tiara and crossed keys, dressed in a fur-trimmed chimere over his rochet with a Canterbury cap on his head, his decapitated head, a mitre and a child carrying a galero below to the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text in image., Publisher from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,68.90., 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 Mr. Richardson"--Below image., Mounted on page 99 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., 1 print : engraving on laid paper ; sheet 36.3 x 22.6 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- John and Paul Knapton
- Subject (Name):
- Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535, and Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Fisher, Bishop of Rochester [graphic]
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