Francis Cleyn senior pictor [art original]

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Title: Francis Cleyn senior pictor [art original]
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of Francis Cleyn, formerly Franz Klein
Description: Title from item.
Signed in ink, lower right under image: G. Vertue del.
Inscription in ink, in 18th century hand, lower right: from an orig in Poses. Mr. Crawley at Hampsted, Hartforsh. An other orig. drawn in Poses. Mr. Rosse.
Inscription in ink, in 18th century hand, lower left: H. Famossmo Pittore Francesco Clein Miracolo dell Secolo. I molto esti mato dell. R. Carlo della grande Britagna. 1646.
Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762, v. 2, p. 127.
George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Provenance: Purchased by Horace Walpole from Vertue's widow. Sold to Evans at the Strawberry Hill sale, viii.122. Purchased by Wilmarth S. Lewis from Drake, December 1949.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 13 x 11 cm, on sheet 25 x 18 cm
Language: Latin

Genre: Portrait drawings
Ink drawings British 18th century
Graphite drawings British 18th century
Material: gray ink and wash with corrections in brown ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Cleyn, Franz, 1590?-1658,
Subject (Topic): Artists
German
Subjects: Cleyn, Franz, 1590?-1658
Artists > German
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: George Vertue, Francis Cleyn Senior Pictor. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.