Walter Ralegh Knight [art original].

Description

Title: Walter Ralegh Knight [art original].
Alternative Title: Walter Raleigh Knight
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title inscribed in ink below image.
Date supplied by cataloger.
After a painting by an unidentified artist, with the date "1602" inscribed both below image and in upper left corner. The original painting is now in the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 3914).
Mounted on page 25 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 : image 12.2 x 8.8 cm, on sheet 16.7 x 11.0 cm, mounted 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 25. 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]