Robert Devereux Earl of Essex 1601 [graphic]

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Title: Robert Devereux Earl of Essex 1601 [graphic]
Creator: Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
Contributor: Oliver, Isaac, 1556?-1617, artist.
John and Paul Knapton (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: 1738.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
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.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 36.7 x 23 cm, on sheet 52.3 x 35 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Book illustrations
Engravings England London 1738
Etchings England London 1738
Material: engraving and etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Name): Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Generals
British
Nobility
Subjects: Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Generals > British
Nobility > Great Britain
England > London > 1738
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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