[Jacob Hall] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Jacob Hall] [graphic]
Creator: Brune, P. de, -1667, engraver
Contributor: Oost, Jakob van, 1637-1713, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1667]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Jacob Hall (fl. 1662-1681), rope dancer and acrobat. See Granger, J. Biographical history of England (1st ed.), v. 2, p. 461
Description: Title, artist, printmaker, and date from impression in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
The Lewis Walpole Library: Ms. note in Horace Walpole's hand mounted below the print: "This is the only impression known of this print of Jacob Hall. It was in the collection of Mr. Ames, is mentioned in his printed Catalogue of English Heads, which were sold by him to Mr. Nichols, then to Dr. Fothergill after whose death this was purchased by Mr. H. Walpole." See The Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 1, p. 182, 195.
After a painting by Jakob (Jacques) van Oost the Younger.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25.3 x 18.5 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Portrait prints
Stipple engravings England
Material: engraving ;
Subject (Name): Hall, Jacob
Subjects: Hall, Jacob > Portraits
England
Fothergill, John, 1712-1780 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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