George Granville, Lord Lansdowne &c. [graphic]

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Description

Title
George Granville, Lord Lansdowne &c. [graphic]
Creator
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Contributor
Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723, artist.
Tonson, Jacob, 1682-1735, publisher.
Gilliver, Lawton, publisher.
Published / Created
[1732]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
J. Tonson and L. Gilliver
Abstract

"Portrait of George Granville, Baron Lansdowne, half-length to left, with head turned to look at viewer, wearing cap, open coat and shirt, his left hand inside the breast of his coat; coat of arms below image."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title engraved below image.
Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared.
Frontispiece to: The genuine works in verse and prose, of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Lansdowne. London : Printed for J. Tonson and L. Gilliver, 1732.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with slight loss of statements of responsibility. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: Q,1.14.
Mounted on page 72 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.
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 : sheet 23.9 x 16 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Frontispieces
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1732
Material
engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Lansdowne, George Granville, Baron, 1667-1735,
Subjects
Lansdowne, George Granville, Baron, 1667-1735
England > London > 1732
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13447682
Object ID (OID)
16729680

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