"Portrait of Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, with long hair, moustache and small beard; nearly half-length to left, with head turned to look to front, wearing collar and breastplate; in a landscape and round frame on stone wall, with two putti beside coat of arms and ?Phrygian cap on sword in foreground; plate to Birch's Heads; after Van Dyck."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image., Questionable attribution to Houbraken and firm attribution to Van Dyck from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,3.141., and Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751].
