[Coll. Parsons] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Coll. Parsons] [graphic]
Creator: Gribelin, Simon, 1661 or 1662-1733, printmaker
Published / Created: [not after 1733?]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait of the chronologer William Parsons; bust, in profile to the right, with long hair, wearing breast plate and cloak; in decorated roundel
Description: Title and statement of responsibility from annotations at bottom of sheet.
Date of publication based on printmaker's death date.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Annotated by Horace Walpole in ink at bottom of sheet: Coll. Parsons ; S.G.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole with his annotations. Possibly part of the nineteen portfolios of English portraits broken up in the London sale (Strawberry Hill sale, 1842) and offered in lots 1-570, 601-728, containing one to forty or more prints each. Prints with Walpole's annotations are gathered under this call number for convenience rather than any solid evidence that this specific print was part of these lots. See Hazen for further information. Joseph Verner Reed.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 7.8 x 7 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Portrait prints
Etchings England 1733
Engravings England 1733
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Parsons, William, 1658-1725?,
Subjects: Parsons, William, 1658-1725?
England > 1733
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes

Access: Public
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