"Portrait of William Beckford after Reynolds (Mannings 149); head and shoulders facing to left, in cravat and plain coat."--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.:1876,1209.45.
Description:
Title from published state., Proof state of a plate, probably a book illustration, later issued with the publication line: London, 1835, Published by R. Bentley. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Babb-Beckford no. 21., and "Proof."--Lower left corner.
"William Pitt; three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing three-quarter to left, looking towards three-quarter to right, holding a letter in right hand, resting left elbow on chair to right; ink pots on table to extreme left; drapery in background; after Gainsborough Dupont."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Publisher, date and place of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: S,7.28., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on sheet: 575 x 434 mm.
Copy of a seventeenth-century engraved portrait of William Somner, an antiquarian scholar and author. The portait is enclosed in an oval revealing an unfinished scrollwork pattern
Alternative Title:
Mr. Somner
Description:
Title devised by curator., An unfinished copy of a 1693 engraving by Michael Burghers., On verso is another drawing: Effigies Gulielmi Bagwell : aetat. 66 ano. Dom. 1659., Two drawings on one sheet, recto and verso., and For further information, consult library staff.
