McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1750 and 1765]
Call Number:
Portraits H257 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication, printmaker, and artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1850,1214.106., Place of publication based on printmaker's known place of activity., Text below title: "From an Original Picture by B. Wilson in the Possession of William Fauquier Esqr." per image in British Museum online catalogue., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1750 and 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portait of Thomas Ashton, half-length, in an architectural oval, slightly turned to the right, dressed in an academic gown with bands at his neck and a bob-wig on his head."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1886,0617.65., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Tipped in at page 93 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., and Watermark, trimmed.