Iohn Duke of Lauderdale [graphic]

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Title: Iohn Duke of Lauderdale [graphic]
Alternative Title: John Duke of Lauderdale
Creator: Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
Contributor: Lely, Peter, 1618-1680, artist.
John and Paul Knapton (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: 1740.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Impensis I. & P. Knapton, Londini
Abstract: "Portrait of John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a neckerchief and brocaded jacket with star of the Order of the Garter; in an ornamental oval; an owl and books below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text in image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"In the collection of the Right Hon. the Earl of Dysart"--Below image.
Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751].
Mounted on page 48 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 37.7 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Book illustrations
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1740
Etchings England London 1740
Material: engraving and etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Lauderdale, John Maitland, Duke of, 1616-1682
Dysart, Lionel Tollemache, Earl of, 1708-1770.
Subjects: Lauderdale, John Maitland, Duke of, 1616-1682 > Portraits
Dysart, Lionel Tollemache, Earl of, 1708-1770
England > London > 1740
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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