[Portrait of Bulstrode Whitelock Esqr.] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Portrait of Bulstrode Whitelock Esqr.] [graphic].
Creator: Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, printmaker
Published / Created: [approximately 1665?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from ms. note in ink below image: "Bulstrode Whitlock by Winceslaus Hollar."
Mounted to 320 x 261 mm; French mount with gilt, black ink, and gray wash borders.
With a note in Thomas Kirgate's hand: "A portrait of Bulstrode Whitlock Esqr. by Winceslaus Hollar. Born at Prague in Bohemia about 1600. An unfinished proof print wash'd & hightned by [...]"
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole. Sold at the Strawberry Hill London Sale, lot 480, 4th day of the sale. Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : oval 128 x 197 mm
Edition: [Proof].
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Portrait prints
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Etchings England London 1665
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Whitlocke, Bulstrode, 1605-1675 or 1676
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Subjects: Whitlocke, Bulstrode, 1605-1675 or 1676 > Portraits
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
18th century
England > London > 1665
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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