Portrait, whole-length wearing fur-trimmed coat, standing facing front, looking away to right, left hand to hip, leaning with right hand holding quill on a volume which lies on a table to left, beside an ink-tray with a letter on which is written 'The Liberty of all Peers.'
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from similar print from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.7363, and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Smith at No. 35 Cheapside & R. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street
"Two boys shown half-length, the nearest on the left glancing at the viewer and holding a copy of the 'The North Briton / no. 45', his hat under his arm, while the other young man reads over his shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., "This is derived from a composition in the same direction by Abraham Bloemaert of two singing boys, engraved by Cornelis Bloemaert (Hollstein 292; Roethlisberger 397)."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint from lower edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 2010,7081.2206.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
