John Dryden [graphic]

Description

Title: John Dryden [graphic]
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723, artist.
Published / Created: [1730]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from text in image.
Text in image above sitter's name: nat. 1632; denat aetat 68.
Text in image below sitter's name: "... whose tunefull [sic] muse affords the sweetest numbers and the fittest words. Addison."
Caption below image: Praenobili dno. dno. Edoardo comiti Oxoniae, &c. ad archetypu[m] museo Harleyano asservatum qua[m] par est observantia[m], D. D. Vertue sculptr.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
Mounted on sheet: 326 x 257 mm.
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 : sheet 344 x 236 mm
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1730
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: engraving ;
Subject (Name): Dryden, John, 1631-1700
Subjects: Dryden, John, 1631-1700 > Portraits
England > London > 1730

Access: Public
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