[Abraham Cowley] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Abraham Cowley] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Hôc juvenem egregium praestanti munere donat. Virg
Creator: Hall, John, 1739-1797, printmaker
Contributor: Lely, Peter, 1618-1680, artist.
Zincke, Christian Frederick, 1685-1767, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 1780?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from later state.
Engraved after a miniature by Zincke which was done after a painting by Peter Lely.
Early state, before title added above image. For later state with title, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Contents H175 no. 1.
Date supplied by cataloger.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 135 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 6 cm, on sheet 7.6 x 8 cm
Edition: [State lacking title].
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1780
Etchings England London 1780
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1780
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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