Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 April 1779]
Call Number:
Portraits C771 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Captain James Cook wearing a suit, seated, resting one arm on a manuscript laid on a table, his hat and a book are next to the manuscript; after a picture by Dance now at Greenwich."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published April 20th 1779 by J.K. Sherwin No. 234 Strand
Volume 1, page 21. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Thomas Cavendish, navigator
Description:
Title from contemporary notes below image., Date supplied by cataloger., With a partly legible pencil annotation in upper right corner: Ao. 1594 [...?]., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 21 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.