[Standing figure] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Standing figure] [graphic]
Creator: Haistwell, Edward, 1736-1783, printmaker
Published / Created: [11 February 1761]
Publication Place: Cambridge, England?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A man standing in profile to left, whole-length, with a hat, sack over shoulder, axe in hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title devised by curator.
Printmaker identified as Edward Haistwell in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1931,0413.205.
Identification of printmaker is confirmed by a letter, pasted above print in album, from Richard Bull to Horace Walpole. In sending the print to Walpole, Bull mentions that it was "engrav'd by Mr. Haistwell, formerly a fellow commoner of C.C.C. College Cambridge [sic]".
Print signed with "CCCC", which probably stands for "Corpus Christi College, Cambridge", where Edward Haistwell was a fellow commoner.
Mounted on page 19 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 56, to Pickering [London, 1126]; offered in Strong's Catalogue for 1843, lot 1867, and sold at Sotheby's in 1851. At one point owned by John Waldie, Hendersyde, with his bookplate in the volume. Sotheby's, 28 October 1942 (Miscellaneous Sale), to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 7.1 x 3.8 cm, on sheet 8.8 x 5.0 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3588 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 19. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [1774?]