Mr. Mason [graphic]

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Title: Mr. Mason [graphic]
Creator: Carter, C., active 1774-1787, printmaker
Contributor: Vaslet, Lewis, 1742-1808, artist.
Published / Created: [1771]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait of William Mason, half-length, in profile to the left, seated on a chair with one hand holding a paper resting on a desk, dressed in a dark frockcoat over his waistcoat with his hair curled."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 71 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.
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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 : sheet 16.4 x 14.2 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1771
Drypoints England London 1771
Material: etching and drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Mason, William, 1725-1797,
Subjects: Mason, William, 1725-1797
England > London > 1771
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

Access: Public
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