[Fiamingo] [graphic].

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Description

Title
[Fiamingo] [graphic].
Creator
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created
[between 1742 and 1765]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"Portrait of François du Quesnoy almost half-length to left and holding statuette of three putti, eyes to front, wearing broad-brimmed hat and wide collar."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title, printmaker, and state from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Proof before letters.
Date range for publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3256.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge.
Mounted on page 200 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 : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 33.1 x 22.8 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Manuscript title in ink below image: Fiamingo.
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 28.7 x 23.3 cm
Edition
[State 1].
Language
No linguistic content

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Proofs
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1742
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material
mezzotint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Duquesnoy, François, approximately 1594-1643,
Subjects
Duquesnoy, François, approximately 1594-1643
England > London > 1742
18th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12812617
Object ID (OID)
16733092

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