Mr. Colley Cibber anno aetatis 67 / [graphic]

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Title: Mr. Colley Cibber anno aetatis 67 / [graphic]
Creator: Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker
Contributor: Vanloo, Jean-Baptiste, 1684-1745, artist.
Published / Created: [1740]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait of Colley Cibber at the age of 67, after Van Loo, almost half-length, turned to the right, with long curly wig; oval frame on plinth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved at bottom of image.
Date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Frontispiece to: Cibber, C. An apology for the life of Colley Cibber ... London : Printed by John Watts for the author, MDCCXL [1740].
Mounted on page 6 (formerly E) of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 21.6 x 16 cm
Language: English

Genre: Frontispieces
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1740
Material: engraving with etching ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757,
Subjects: Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757
England > London > 1740
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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