[George Griffith] [art original].

Description

Title: [George Griffith] [art original].
Contributor: White, Robert, 1645-1703.
Published / Created: [1790s?]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Date of production based on the presumed late-1790s assembly date for the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found.
Probably a copy of a late seventeenth-century engraving by Robert White; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1863,0214.513. See also: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 390.
Bound in opposite page 234 in volume 11 of an extra-illustrated copy of James Granger's A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution.
Provenance: Halliday, March 1936, to W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : oval image 14.4 x 12 cm, on sheet 15.3 x 13 cm, mounted to 21.7 x 17 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 724 769G v.11
Collection Title: Volume 11, opposite page 234. A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution.
Collection / Other Creator: Granger, James, 1723-1776.
Collection Date: London, T. Davies, 1769.

Access: Public
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Citation: George Griffith. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.