Ignatius Sancho [graphic]

Description

Title: Ignatius Sancho [graphic]
Creator: Wright, James, 1745-1820, printmaker
Contributor: Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1820]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A portrait of Ignatius Sancho, in an oval, half-length facing three-quarter to left, with his right hand on stomach inside vest. Born a slave, he was self-educated and became known as a scholar, playwright, poet, and composer
Description: Title from caption below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Copy of a 1781 print made in London by Francesco Bartolozzi, after a painting by Thomas Gainsborough and published by John Nichols.
Mounted to 27 x 19 cm.
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 12.2 x 8 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Stipple engravings England London 1820
Material: stipple engraving with etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Name): Sancho, Ignatius, 1729-1780,
Subject (Topic): Poets, Black
Dramatists
Composers
Scholars
Subjects: Sancho, Ignatius, 1729-1780
Poets, Black > Great Britain
Dramatists
Composers
Scholars
England > London > 1820

Access: Public
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