Isaac Oliver [graphic]

Description

Title: Isaac Oliver [graphic]
Creator: Miller, John, 1715-1790?, printmaker
Contributor: Oliver, Isaac, 1556?-1617, artist.
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Published / Created: [ca. 1762]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Publisher: Strawberry Hill Press
Abstract: "Portrait, half length, to the right, looking at viewer; wearing embroidered doublet, cloak over left shoulder, and ruff, with moustache and short curled hair, one hand on hip; in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared.
Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780].
"Vol. 1, p. 152"--Upper right corner.
Engraved after a self-portrait miniature by Oliver that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 136 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.
1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on wove paper ; sheet 17.3 x 13.4 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 18 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1762
Etchings England London 1762
Material: etching and engraving with stipple ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Oliver, Isaac, 1556?-1617,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Oliver, Isaac, 1556?-1617
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1762
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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