Sr. Kenelm Digby [graphic]

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Title: Sr. Kenelm Digby [graphic]
Alternative Title: Sir Kenelm Digby
Creator: Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
Contributor: Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641, artist.
John and Paul Knapton (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: 1748.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Impensis J. & P. Knapton Londini
Abstract: An engraved portrait of Sir Kenelm Digby after the painting by Anthony Van Dyck, a bust of Digby in a lace collar, looking left, in an oval frame with ornaments below
Description: Title engraved in image.
Text below image: From an original picture in [the] Royal Palace of Kensington.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Plate to: Birch, T. Heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : Printed for John and Paul Knapton, MDCCLII [1752].
Mounted on page 47 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
1 print : engraving on wove paper ; sheet 37.2 x 23.6 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36.8 x 23 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1748
Material: engraving ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665,
Subjects: Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665
England > London > 1748
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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