[Louis Jules Barbon Mazarini Mancini, Duc de Nivernois] [graphic].

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Description

Title
[Louis Jules Barbon Mazarini Mancini, Duc de Nivernois] [graphic].
Creator
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Contributor
Ramsay, Allan, 1713-1784, artist.
Published / Created
[1764?]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"Portrait of Louis Jules Barbon Mancini Mazarini, Duke of Nivernois; seen bust-length to right, eyes to front, wearing sash, lace collar, and his hair powdered and tied with ribbon; after Ramsay."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title from lettered state.
Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: A. Ramsay pinxt. ; J. McArdell fecit.
Proof state before letters added; for later states with lettering, see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 2, no. 140, pages 885-886.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1872,1012.4085.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge.
Mounted on page 244 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 30 x 23 cm
Edition
[Proof before letters].
Language
No linguistic content

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1764
Material
mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798,
Subjects
Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
England > London > 1764
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13615466
Object ID (OID)
16729809

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