Charles, Duke of Richmond &c. 1778 [graphic]

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Title: Charles, Duke of Richmond &c. 1778 [graphic]
Creator: Watson, James, 1740-1790, printmaker
Contributor: Romney, George, 1734-1802, artist.
Published / Created: publish'd according to act of Parliament, Decr. 21st, 1778.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait seated in profile to left reading book within rectangular frame, wearing dark coat, ruffles and his hair tied with ribbon, tree behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Scratched-letter state; plate was later reworked and republished by W. Dickinson and T. Watson on 21 December 1782, with the text below image reengraved and expanded. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1950,0520.259.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 168 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 : sheet 37.6 x 28 cm
Edition: [State 1].
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1778
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806,
Subjects: Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
England > London > 1778
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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