"Portrait of Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, with long curly hair, bust to right, looking towards the viewer, wearing broad lace collar and sash over doublet; in an oval, within rectangular frame."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition
Description:
Title etched below image., After a picture by Theodore Russel that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper, à la poupée and some hand-coloring ; sheet 11.3 x 9.6 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint statement., With wash-line mount of laid paper with "J. Whatman" watermark. Also on verso another wash-line mount with missing drawing or print., and Titled in ink in a contemporary hand on mount below image: Henry Carey Earl of Monmouth : from an original at Strawberry Hill.
Publisher:
Publish'd 22 Sepr. 1798 by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall, & P. Brown, Crown St., Soho
Subject (Name):
Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, with long curly hair, bust to right, looking towards the viewer, wearing broad lace collar and sash over doublet; in an oval, within rectangular frame."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition
Description:
Title etched below image., After a picture by Theodore Russel that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 62 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 13.6 x 10.4 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title and complete loss of imprint statement.
Publisher:
Publish'd 22 Sepr. 1798 by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall, & P. Brown, Crown St., Soho
Subject (Name):
Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)