Call Number: Portraits R511 no. 1 - Yale University Library Search Results

Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833, printmaker
Published / Created:: [28 October 1791]
Call Number:: Portraits R511 no. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait of Richard II, half-length, facing the viewer, holding his sceptre and his orb, seated on a throne, with a small beard and moustache and a crown over his curling hair, dressed in an ermine-lined mantle with a jewelled collar over a robe embroidered with roses and crowned 'R's."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Richard the Second
Description:: Title from caption below image. and Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Publisher:: Pub'd. Octr. 28, 1791 by N. Smith Gt. Mays Buildings, St. Martins Lane
Subject (Name):: Richard II, King of England, 1367-1400,
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Richard II from an original picture which fromerly hung in the Choir of St. Peter's, Westminster ... this curious picture. See the Honble. Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, Vol. 1, p. 41. Stryp's, Slow, Book VI, p. 585, Granger Vol. 1 p. 15 & Pennant's London. [graphic]