Cibber [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Cibber [graphic]
- Creator
- Bannerman, Alexander, approximately 1730- printmaker
- Contributor
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Richter, Christian, 1678-1732, artist.
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Published / Created
- [approximately 1765]
- Publication Place
- Twickenham
- Publisher
- Strawberry Hill Press
- Abstract
-
"Portrait of Caius Gabriel Cibber, half-length, in an oval, slightly turned to the right, holding a pair of compasses in his hand, dressed in a black doublet with a wide collar and plain cuffs and with his hair scrolling to his shoulders, the title on the plinth below."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title from text in image.
After a watercolor drawing by Christian Richter that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill.
Publication information from that of the volume for which the print was engraved.
Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England. [Twickenham] : Printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry-Hill, 1765-1771 [i.e. 1780].
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Vol. III, p. 80"--Above image in upper right.
Mounted on page 59 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.
1 print : engraving and etching on wove paper ; sheet 16.8 x 12.7 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of statement of responsibility from bottom edge and volume and page numbering from top edge. - 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 18.8 x 14 cm
- Language
-
Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Book illustrations
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1765
Etchings England London 1765 - Material
- engraving and etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
-
Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 1630-1700,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) - Subjects
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Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 1630-1700
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1765
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12699044
- Object ID (OID)
- 16193404
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