Miss Sp-ks Admiral Sternpost. [graphic]

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Title: Miss Sp-ks Admiral Sternpost. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Miss Sparks
Contributor: Walker, Thomas, active 1770-1805, publisher.
Published / Created: 1778.
Publication Place: Dublin
Publisher: Published as the act directs by T. Walker, No. 79 Dame Street
Abstract: Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Miss Sparks and her alleged lover, an admiral who served in the war of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War, possibly Lord Hawke
Description: Title from item.
Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 404; T. (Thomas) Walker, publisher of the Hibernian magazine, was located at Dame Street Dublin from 1770-1786.
Probably from the Hibernian Magazine, 1778. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, no. 5504, originally published in Town and country magazine.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 10.4 x 17.2 cm, on sheet 14 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Periodical illustrations
Stipple engravings Ireland Dublin 1778
Engravings Ireland Dublin 1778
Material: engraving & stipple engraving ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Hawke, Edward Hawke, Baron, 1705-1781,
Subjects: Hawke, Edward Hawke, Baron, 1705-1781
Ireland > Dublin > 1778

Access: Public
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