The Right Honble. Sr. Robert Walpole First Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kright of the most Noble Order of the Garter, & one of his Majesties most Hoble. Privy Council / [graphic]

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Title: The Right Honble. Sr. Robert Walpole First Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kright of the most Noble Order of the Garter, & one of his Majesties most Hoble. Privy Council / [graphic]
Alternative Title: Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole
Creator: Simon, John, approximately 1675-1751, printmaker
Contributor: Hysing, Hans, 1678-1752 or 1753, artist.
Simon, John, approximately 1675-1751, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1742?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by I. Simon at the Golden Eagle in York Buildings
Abstract: "Portrait seen half length, within oval frame, directed towards left, facing towards and looking to front, wig, coat with sash and star, and robe of office over."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description: Title engraved below image.
Second state, with face altered and portion of hand erased and replaced by buttons. See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Date range for publication based on the date printmaker and publisher John Simon moved to his Golden Eagle address (after 1720) and the date he ceased production (1742). See British Museum online catalogue.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge with partial loss of title and complete loss of imprint statement. Missing text supplied from description in: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Mounted on page 10 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
With note in ink in Richard Bull's hand, below image on mounting sheet: Lord Orford told Mr. B. this was most like his father of any print publish'd.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent: 1 print : oval image 29.8 x 24.2 cm, on sheet 32.8 x 24.9 cm
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1720
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Name): Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,
Subject (Topic): Prime ministers
Subjects: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Prime ministers > Great Britain
England > London > 1720
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 13400479
Object ID (OID): 16729643