[Portrait of William Bawtree] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Portrait of William Bawtree] [graphic].
Published / Created: [approximately 1824]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identied
Abstract: Half-length portrait of engraver William Bawtree, facing left, at the age of 80.
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Unsigned; artist and engraved not identified.
Date based on manuscript mounted opposite, written by his great-great-grandson.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted on page 1 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance: Spencer, ex dono Annie Burr Lewis; June 1933. Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 13.2 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1824
Material: engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bawtree, William, 1744-1824,
Subject (Topic): Engravers
Subjects: Bawtree, William, 1744-1824
Engravers
England > London > 1824
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

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