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Creator:: Dixon, John, approximately 1740-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: published as the act directs, A.D. 1770.
Call Number:: Babb-Beckford no. 16+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait, three-quarter length directed to right, looking towards the viewer, left hand resting on a scroll labelled 'Magna Charta', beside mace and sword on a table, holding 'Bill of Rights' in right hand, wearing fur-trimmed cloak and chain of office, a waistcoat with embroidered hem, and chin-length wig; before plate reduced."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Right Honorable William Beckford Esqr
Description:: Title etched below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., "London" and "published as the act directs, A.D. 1770" precede "Printed for Carington Bowles ..." at bottom of plate., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; plate mark 35.7 x 25.5 cm, on sheet 41.5 x 27.8 cm., and Imperfect; date in imprint statement has been erased from sheet.
Publisher:: Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Name):: Beckford, William, 1709-1770
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Right Honble. Willm. Beckford Esqr., Lord Mayor & Member of Parliament for the City of London this being the second time of his mayoralty & the third time of his representing that city in Parliament / [graphic]

Creator:: Dixon, John, approximately 1740-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: published as the act directs, A.D. 1770.
Call Number:: Babb-Beckford no. 15+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait, three-quarter length directed to right, looking towards the viewer, left hand resting on a scroll labelled 'Magna Charta', beside mace and sword on a table, holding 'Bill of Rights' in right hand, wearing fur-trimmed cloak and chain of office, a waistcoat with embroidered hem, and chin-length wig; before plate reduced."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Right Honorable William Beckford Esqr
Description:: Title etched below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., "London" and "published as the act directs, A.D. 1770" precede "Printed for Carington Bowles ..." at bottom of plate., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Matted to 54 x 43 cm.
Publisher:: Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Name):: Beckford, William, 1709-1770
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Right Honble. Willm. Beckford Esqr., Lord Mayor & Member of Parliament for the City of London this being the second time of his mayoralty & the third time of his representing that city in Parliament / [graphic]

Creator:: Grainger, W., printmaker
Published / Created:: [not before 1771]
Call Number:: Babb-Beckford no. 4
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched below image., Artist of the statue identified as F.J. Moore in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication based on the dates of other prints showing Beckford's monument, which was completed in 1772. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, pages 151-152., Probably an illustration to a book., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Beckford, William, 1709-1770
Subject (Topic):: Monuments
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Monument to the memory of Alderman Beckford in Guildhall [graphic]

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