"Portrait seen almost half-length slightly to right within oval frame, his head turned to face l, wearing armour, sash, neckcloth and long, full wig."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a similar print
Alternative Title:
John Dux Marlborough, March. Blanfort
Description:
Title from caption below image., Artist and date from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., Text on edge of oval frame in print: Armis circumdatus ipse suscitat, eratasque acies in praelia cogit.--Virg. 9 aenid., and Mounted on paper support: 328 x 237 mm.
"Portrait of William Talbot, three-quarter-length, slightly turned to the left, seated on a chair with a mortar-board in his hand, dressed in a chimere over his rochet with the robes of the Chancellor of the Garter about his shoulder, a periwig on his head and bands at his neck, the purse of the Great Seal on a sideboard beyond, his arms below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1858,0213.212., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 6 (formerly E) of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
