The Honble. Colonel Townshend [graphic].

Description

Title: The Honble. Colonel Townshend [graphic].
Alternative Title: Honourable Colonel Townshend
Creator: McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Contributor: Hudson, Thomas, 1701-1779, artist.
Published / Created: [not before 1764]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait of George Townshend standing three-quarter length slightly to left and leaning his right elbow on pedestal beside curtain, eyes to front, wearing uniform, his own hair curled, holding paper in his right hand labelled 'A Bill Intituled, An Act for the Better Order of the Militia Forces."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description: Title engraved below image.
Artist and printmaker from earlier states of the plate described in Smith, Russell, and the Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Later state, with imprint of John Bowles & Son burnished from plate (the remnants of which are faintly visible beneath title).
Date of publication based on date assigned to the earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue.
For the earlier state with the imprint "Printed for Jno. Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3402. See also: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 298. This earlier state is described as no. 176a (state 2) in: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states, v. 2, page 221. An unspecified earlier state of this plate is also briefly mentioned in: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 2, no. 176, page 899.
Watermark.
Provenance: Gift of Sharon Townshend, Cynthia Townshend-Lacock, C. Hervey Townshend, Nancy Townshend-Vess, and Timothy K. Townshend; June 2021.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.8 x 25.4 cm, on sheet 36.3 x 26.2 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English