Sir Francis Walsingham [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Sir Francis Walsingham [graphic]
- Creator
- Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
- Contributor
-
Zuccaro, Federico, approximately 1540-1609, artist.
John and Paul Knapton (Firm), publisher. - Published / Created
- 1738.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Impensis J. & P. Knapton, Londini
- Abstract
-
Portrait of Francis Walsingham, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a ruff and brocaded jacket; in an ornamental oval decorated with an owl, a book, a snake and envelopes; a cartouche below showing a woman seated in a chair accompanied by two other women being shown a painting of a group of men by the artist and his assistants
- Description
-
Title from text in image.
"In the collection of the Right Honorable Sr. Robert Walpole"--Below image.
Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751].
Engraved after the portrait painting, formerly thought to be of Sir Francis Walsingham, that later came into the collection of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 138 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.
1 print : engraving with etching on wove paper ; sheet 37 x 22.9 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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 : plate mark 37.7 x 23.7 cm, on sheet 52.5 x 34.2 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Book illustrations
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1738 - Material
- engraving with etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590,
- Subjects
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Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590
England > London > 1738
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11079268
- Object ID (OID)
- 16733029
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