Sir Francis Walsingham [graphic]

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Title: Sir Francis Walsingham [graphic]
Creator: Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
Contributor: Zuccaro, Federico, approximately 1540-1609, artist.
John and Paul Knapton (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: 1738.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Impensis J. & P. Knapton, Londini
Abstract: Portrait of Francis Walsingham, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a ruff and brocaded jacket; in an ornamental oval decorated with an owl, a book, a snake and envelopes; a cartouche below showing a woman seated in a chair accompanied by two other women being shown a painting of a group of men by the artist and his assistants
Description: Title from text in image.
"In the collection of the Right Honorable Sr. Robert Walpole"--Below image.
Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751].
Engraved after the portrait painting, formerly thought to be of Sir Francis Walsingham, that later came into the collection of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill.
Plate mark 37.5 x 23.7 on sheet 52.5 x 32.8 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 : plate mark 37.7 x 23.7 cm, on sheet 52.5 x 34.2 cm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1738
Material: engraving with etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590,
Subjects: Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590
England > London > 1738
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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