[Frobenius, the printer] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Frobenius, the printer] [graphic]
Creator: Visscher, Lambert, approximately 1631-approximately 1691, printmaker
Contributor: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, artist.
Published / Created: [1664?]
Publication Place: Netherlands?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait of Johannes Froben, bust to left, wearing fur-trimmed coat; in a circle on a pedestal."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description: Title from manuscript note in ink within pedestal below image, in Horace Walpole's hand.
State lacking title and without year "1664" following printmaker's signature. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,7.177.
Place and date of publication from description of variant state in the British Museum online catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 101 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 : circular image 9.8 cm, on sheet 15.9 x 12.8 cm
Language: Latin

Genre: Portraits
Portrait prints
Engravings Netherlands 1664
Etchings Netherlands 1664
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: engraving and etching ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Froben, Johann, -1527
Subjects: Froben, Johann, -1527 > Portraits
Netherlands > 1664
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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