James Gibbs [graphic]

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Title: James Gibbs [graphic]
Creator: Bannerman, Alexander, approximately 1730-, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1762?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait of British architect James Gibbs, half-length directed to left, looking away slightly to right, pointing with right hand held in front of him just above waist-level, wearing shoulder-length white wig, architectural interior behind him, the whole in an oval, after Hogarth
Description: Title etched below image.
After the portrait by William Hogarth.
"P. 432"--Upper right corner.
Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England.
Window mounted to 39 x 28 cm.
Mounted on page 184 in volume 5 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world. London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Provenance: Borden Sale, American Art Gallery, 17-19 February 1913, lot 812. Rains Galleries, New York, NY, 27 November 1935 (W.D. Breaker sale), lot 688, bought in by Breaker. Purchased from William D. Breaker (through G.A. Baker) by W.S. Lewis; 1939.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 23.6 x 29.9 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1762
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gibbs, James, 1682-1754,
Subject (Topic): Architects
Subjects: Gibbs, James, 1682-1754
Architects
England > London > 1762
Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912 > Ownership
Breaker, William D. > Ownership

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