[Portrait of John Speed from an engraved frontispiece] [art original]

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Title: [Portrait of John Speed from an engraved frontispiece] [art original]
Alternative Title: Aet. M. viri clarissimi Joannis Speed Farndoniae nati in Comitatu Cestriae
Creator: Barber, Christopher, 1735 or 1736-1810, artist
Published / Created: [1754]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of the head of John Speed after the frontispiece to his British Isles atlas Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (London, 1631 onwards); the plate also appeared in the other editions of his atlases).
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Possibly by a young Christopher Barber?
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 drawing : image 149 x 90 mm, mounted to sheet 247 x 148 mm
Language: Latin

Access: Public
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