John Collier, known as Tim Bobbin, the caricaturist; styled himself as "the Lancashire Hogarth"; half-length, seated in a chair, looking left, in cap. After the portrait by Hogarth
John Collier, known as Tim Bobbin, the caricaturist; styled himself as "the Lancashire Hogarth"; half-length, seated in a chair, looking left, in cap. After the portrait by Hogarth
"Portrait of John Jervis, half-length, seated to left in an armchair, with arms on chair arms; wearing a double-breasted coat fastened with four buttons, and star on his chest at right."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
"Portrait of John Playfair, over half-length, seated to left in an armchair, his left arm resting on chair arm; wearing spectacles, open double-breasted coat over waistcoat fastened with six buttons, neckerchief and frill; books on a table at left, globe behind; after William Nicholson."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title, printmaker, artist, and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.1903.
"Half-length portrait as Cardinal Wolsey, three-quarter to the right, unrolling paper on his side, in habit, with medium-long blonde hair, Tower of London seen through arched window in the right background; open-letter state, publication line trimmed off."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title, printmaker, and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0512.258., Artist from Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and Place of publication based on printmaker's known place of activity.
"Portrait of Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey, three-quarter length, standing to right on a hill beside a tree, looking towards the viewer, leaning on a stick held in his left hand, holding a tricorn hat in the right; wearing uniform, sash over waistcoat, sword and queue wig; river below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print of similar composition
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Title from manuscript note in ink on mounting sheet., Engraved after a painting by Nathanial Dance; see description of another print of similar composition in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1920,1211.410. For a discussion of various versions of the painting produced by the workshop of Nathanial Dance, see description for NPG 39 in the online catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery, London., Proof before letters?, Approximate date of publication supplied by cataloger., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 451., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 382 (leaf numbered '197' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Clive, Robert Clive, Baron, 1725-1774,
Subject (Topic):
Government officials, British, and Military uniforms
Portrait of a man, probably Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; bust length, turned slightly to the left; with a Van Dyke beard; wearing a hat and dark clothing
Description:
Title from note below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Probably engraved after the drawing by Vertue, copied from an original by Holbein, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 98 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.