Fryer Bacon [art original].

Description

Title: Fryer Bacon [art original].
Alternative Title: Friar Bacon
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title written in block letters at top of image.
Date supplied by cataloger.
Laid down on an ink line mount.
Mounted on page 13 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 32, to Smith [London, 1268]. Lord Waldegrave, July 1948, to W.S. Lewis, in a collection.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 17.1 x 13.2 cm, mounted to 20.0 x 16.0 cm, on page 41 x 27 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3581 v.1
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 13. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [ca. 1757]