Title engraved below image., Plate from: Liber veritatis, or, A collection of two hundred prints / engraved by Richard Earlom from the original drawings owned by the Duke of Devonshire. London: Boydell and Co., 1777., Josiah Boydell (1752-1817), English artist and publisher., and Probably one of the set owned by Horace Walpole and later dispersed. See A.T. Hazen, Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no 3669.
Publisher:
Published March 25th, 1777 by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside London
"Portrait of Jane Goodwin, standing three-quarter length, holding a lily, after van Dyck; lettered state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., "Size of the picture 3 F 5 I by 4 F 4 I high"--Below title., Mounted on leaf numbered 37 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1779 by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside, London
Half length portrait to the right, in an oval, of a man wearing a long curled wig and a cravat; tentatively identified as Horatio Townshend, 1st Viscount Townshend
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker attribution and sitter's identity from note in pencil on verso: Lord Townshend, engravd. by Josiah Boydell., Probably a proof state; no lettering present, and lower margin not cleaned., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted to 36 x 28 cm.
