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1. The Honble. Colonel Townshend [graphic].
- Creator:
- McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1764]
- Call Number:
- Portraits T753G no. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of George Townshend standing three-quarter length slightly to left and leaning his right elbow on pedestal beside curtain, eyes to front, wearing uniform, his own hair curled, holding paper in his right hand labelled 'A Bill Intituled, An Act for the Better Order of the Militia Forces."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Honourable Colonel Townshend
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Artist and printmaker from earlier states of the plate described in Smith, Russell, and the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Later state, with imprint of John Bowles & Son burnished from plate (the remnants of which are faintly visible beneath title)., Date of publication based on date assigned to the earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue., For the earlier state with the imprint "Printed for Jno. Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3402. See also: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 298. This earlier state is described as no. 176a (state 2) in: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states, v. 2, page 221. An unspecified earlier state of this plate is also briefly mentioned in: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 2, no. 176, page 899., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Honble. Colonel Townshend [graphic].
