[Thomas Kirgate, printer at Strawberry-Hill] [graphic].

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Title: [Thomas Kirgate, printer at Strawberry-Hill] [graphic].
Creator: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, printmaker, artist
Contributor: Hall, John, 1739-1797, printmaker.
Published / Created: [1784]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A portrait of Thomas Kirgate, half-length, looking to the right
Description: Title written in black ink below plate line, in an unidentified hand.
Statements of responsibility written in black ink below title, in an unidentified hand: Painted & etched by E. Edwards, 1784; finished by J. Hall.
Mounted on page 187 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 on wove paper ; sheet 12.4 x 8.2 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Sitter identified by Horace Walpole in brown ink below image, on mounting page: T. Kirgate the printer.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 12.4 x 9 cm, on sheet 20 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Etchings England 1784
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,
Subjects: Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810
England > 1784
18th century
Mackinlay, Thomas > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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