[Thomas Gray] [graphic].
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16193010
Description
- Title
- [Thomas Gray] [graphic].
- Creator
- Miller, John, 1715-1790?, printmaker
- Contributor
- Eccardt, John Giles, -1779, artist.
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1753]
- Publication Place
- London?
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
A portrait of Thomas Gray standing, nearly three-quarter length, facing the viewer. He holds a letter in his right hand, which rests on his left wrist, the whole framed in masonry, arched at the top
- Description
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Title supplied by cataloger.
Printmaker from statement of responsibility on variant state: J.S. Müller sculpt.
After a painting by J.G. Eccardt in the National Portrait Gallery, London. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Date of publication from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved. According to the Catalogue of engraved British portraits, "This plate was engraved for the Poems, 1753, but destroyed by Gray's desire."
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
For a variant state bearing printmaker's signature, see: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 376.
Mounted on page 66 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.
Sitter's name "Mr. Thomas Gray" written in brown ink at bottom of sheet, in Thomas Kirgate's hand. - Provenance
- Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 30.8 x 24 cm
- Edition
- [State without printmaker's signature].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1753 - Material
- engraving ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771,
- Subjects
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Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
England > London > 1753
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13197574
- Object ID (OID)
- 16193010
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