Thomas Ashton, D.D. [graphic]

Description

Title: Thomas Ashton, D.D. [graphic]
Creator: McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Contributor: Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788, artist
Published / Created: [between 1750 and 1765]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portait of Thomas Ashton, half-length, in an architectural oval, slightly turned to the right, dressed in an academic gown with bands at his neck and a bob-wig on his head."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1886,0617.65.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Tipped in at page 93 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.
Watermark, trimmed.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 33.1 x 23.2 cm
Language: English

Genre: Reproductions
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1750
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Ashton, Thomas, 1716-1775,
Subjects: Ashton, Thomas, 1716-1775
England > London > 1750
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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