John Wilkes, Esq. [graphic]

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Title: John Wilkes, Esq. [graphic]
Creator: Haid, Johann Philipp, 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Pine, Robert Edge, 1730?-1788, artist.
Kaiserlich Franciscische Akademie der Freien Künste und Wissenschaften, publisher.
Published / Created: [not before 1764]
Publication Place: Augsburg, Germany
Publisher: Kaiserlich Franziskiche Academie
Abstract: Portrait; three-quarter length seated three-quarter to right; at a table wearing a coat with braiding and large cuffs and frilled cravat and powdered hair brushed back; right hand on his thigh; left hand holding quill poised over sheets of paper; looking up to right at a classical statuette of a female figure holding a mirror and large shield decorated with a shining sun; a volume labelled "Sydney on Gov."; a letter addressed "To Hu Cotes Esqr London," and a scroll labelled "Magna Charta" on the table; and a plaque with a bust of Hampden leaning against the table in lower right corner
Description: Title from text below image.
Engraved after a portrait by R.E. Pine.
Date of publication from description in the online catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the National Portrait Gallery, London: NPG D19995.
"Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sae Caes Majestatis."
Provenance: Suckling; November 1958.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 39.5 x 28 cm
Language: Latin

Access: Public
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