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1. John Wilkes, Esq. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Haid, Johann Philipp, 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1764]
- Call Number:
- Portraits W682 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait; three-quarter length seated three-quarter to right; at a table wearing a coat with braiding and large cuffs and frilled cravat and powdered hair brushed back; right hand on his thigh; left hand holding quill poised over sheets of paper; looking up to right at a classical statuette of a female figure holding a mirror and large shield decorated with a shining sun; a volume labelled "Sydney on Gov."; a letter addressed "To Hu Cotes Esqr London," and a scroll labelled "Magna Charta" on the table; and a plaque with a bust of Hampden leaning against the table in lower right corner
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Engraved after a portrait by R.E. Pine., Date of publication from description in the online catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery, London., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the National Portrait Gallery, London: NPG D19995., and "Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sae Caes Majestatis."
- Publisher:
- Kaiserlich Franziskiche Academie
- Subject (Name):
- Wilkes, John, 1725-1797,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > John Wilkes, Esq. [graphic]
