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1. Robert Devereux Earl of Essex 1601 [graphic]
- Creator:
- Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1738.
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, bust directed to right but looking at the viewer, with square beard, wearing a ruff and lace collar, a column beyond; in an architectural oval with pedestal and urn below; a putto holding a torch and weeping over the sitter's decapitated head which lies next to an axe."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text in image., 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 Sr. Robert Worsley Bart."--Below image., Engraved after the minature later acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the rosewood cabinet in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 133 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 and etching on laid paper ; sheet 36.7 x 23 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Generals, British, and Nobility
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Robert Devereux Earl of Essex 1601 [graphic]
2. Robert Devereux Earl of Essex 1601 [graphic]
- Creator:
- Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1738.
- Call Number:
- Portraits D491 no. 1+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, bust directed to right but looking at the viewer, with square beard, wearing a ruff and lace collar, a column beyond; in an architectural oval with pedestal and urn below; a putto holding a torch and weeping over the sitter's decapitated head which lies next to an axe."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text in image., 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 Sr. Robert Worsley Bart."--Below image., and Engraved after the minature later acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the rosewood cabinet in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
- Publisher:
- Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Generals, British, and Nobility
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Robert Devereux Earl of Essex 1601 [graphic]