[Portrait of William Murray, Earl of Mansfield] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Portrait of William Murray, Earl of Mansfield] [graphic].
Contributor: Wootton, John, approximately 1682-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [late 18th century?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title devised by curator.
Possibly after an oil painting by Wootton that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill.
Date assigned by cataloger.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 63 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 17.3 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1770
Engravings England London 1770
Material: etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1770
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

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