Sr. Francis Bacon Viscount St. Albans Lord Chancellor [graphic]

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Title: Sr. Francis Bacon Viscount St. Albans Lord Chancellor [graphic]
Alternative Title: Sir Francis Bacon Viscount St. Albans Lord Chancellor
Creator: Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
Contributor: Vanderbank, John, 1694-1739, artist.
John and Paul Knapton (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: 1738.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
Abstract: "Portrait of Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a tall hat and ruff; in an ornamental oval with curtain beyond; below a putto holding a sceptre; books and scrolls in lower left; lettered state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text in image.
Engraved after a painting by John Vanderbank. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1927,1126.1.7.5.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751].
"In the Possession of Martin Foulkes Esqr."--Below image.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 375 (leaf numbered '192' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Provenance: Formerly owned by R.B. Sheridan (the dramatist's grandson), who undertook the copious extra-illustration of the volumes. Later owned by Sheridan's descendant Lady Wavertree. Sotheby's, 25 May 1954 (Lady Wavertree sale), lot 266, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36.1 x 22.4 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English