Charles, Duke of Richmond, &c. Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Master-General of the Ordnance, &c. &c. / [graphic]

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16733109

Description

Title
Charles, Duke of Richmond, &c. Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Master-General of the Ordnance, &c. &c. / [graphic]
Creator
Watson, James, 1740-1790, printmaker
Contributor
Romney, George, 1734-1802, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Watson, Thomas, active 1781-1792, publisher.
Published / Created
[21 December 1782]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Publish'd Decr. 21st, 1782, by W. Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street, & T. Watson, No. 33 Strand
Abstract

"Portrait seated in profile to left reading book within rectangular frame, wearing dark coat, ruffles and his hair tied with ribbon, tree behind."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title engraved below image.
State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Second state, with plate reworked and new inscriptions engraved. For earlier scratched-letter state published in 1778, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6494.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 580.
Mounted on page 218 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 37.3 x 28 cm
Edition
[State 2].
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1782
Material
mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806,
Subjects
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
England > London > 1782
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13601681
Object ID (OID)
16733109

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