Mr. Abraham Cowley [graphic]

Description

Title: Mr. Abraham Cowley [graphic]
Creator: Faithorne, William, 1616-1691, printmaker
Contributor: Beale, Mary, 1633-1699, artist.
Herringman, Henry, -1704, publisher.
Published / Created: [1668]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Henry Herringman
Abstract: "Portrait of Abraham Cowley, bust length in an octagonal frame, long hair, wearing gown; frontispiece to his 'Works' (1668)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Artist identified as Mary Beale in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Second state of the first (Plate A) of three similar plates by Faithorne, with cross-hatching added to the crown of the head and a single hair seen on the left of the forehead. See Fagan.
Frontispiece to: Cowley, A. The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley. London : Printed by J.M. for Henry Herringman ..., 1668.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 708 (leaf numbered '162' in pencil) in volume 4 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 26.5 x 17.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English