Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford [graphic]

Description

Title: Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford [graphic]
Creator: Evans, William, active 1797-1812, printmaker
Contributor: Lawrence, Thomas, 1769-1830, artist.
Published / Created: [ca. 1797]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait after a drawing by Lawrence; bust-length to front, head turned in three-quarter profile to look right, wearing a short wig curled at the sides."--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Q,2.58.
Description: Title etched below image.
Proof state, with scratch lettering and lacking engraved frame. For later state, see the Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, p. 377.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Mary A. Benjamin (with letter from Pinkerton to Horace Walpole, 29 November 1786); November 1946.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 31.4 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Stipple engravings England 1797
Proofs
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: stipple engraving with roulette ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797,
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
England > 1797
18th century
Berry, Mary, 1763-1852 > Ownership
Berry, Agnes, 1764-1852 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Sheffield, John Holroyd, Earl of, 1735-1821 > Ownership
Berry, Mary, 1763-1852 > Ms. notes
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ms. notes
Berry, Mary, 1763-1852 > Presentation inscription
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Inscription to.
Sheffield, John Holroyd, Earl of, 1735-1821 > Inscription to.

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