"Portrait, half-length, three-quarter to left, looking towards the viewer, left hand on his hip, wearing a plumed cap, small ruff, a cloak hung on his right shoulder, and a medal on a ribbon over his doublet, in an oval frame with crests at the top on each side."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Engraved on the same plate as a mezzotint portrait entitled "Dorothy, Wife of Sir John Pakington ..."; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.2333., Plate published in: Nash, T. Collections for the history of Worcestershire ... London : John Nichols ..., 1781-1782., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of second portrait engraved on the same plate and with loss of imprint statement from below this portrait. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1902,1011.2333., Mounted on page 209 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
SH Contents C442 no. 1 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 41
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Copy of a portrait of Sir John Perrot, for Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill
Alternative Title:
Sir John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland
Description:
Title from note in Horace Walpole's hand, written in ink on the back of the frame: Sr. John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland., Attributed to Chambars by Walpole in the Vertue notebooks. See Walpole Society, 1937-38, xxvi, p.62., Possibly commissioned circa 1763. See Walpole's letter to Bishop Lyttleton, 16 October 1762. See 1983 Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 43, p. 384n., The original on which this drawing is based was used by Valentine Green for his mezzotint print published in Jany. 1, 1776, from a copy made by George Powle. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits, v. iii, p. 453., and Thomas Chambars, (ca. 1724-1789), English artist.
