Four oval portraits, one occupying each quadrant of the plate, of the 41st through 44th Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller (Knights of Malta). The sitter's name is engraved within the surrounding border of each portrait. A decorative cross fills the space in the center, as do the Roman numerals XLI-XLIV, which number the portraits
Alternative Title:
F. Guido de Blanchefort ; F. Fabritius de Carretto ; F. Philippus de Villers Lisle Adam ; F. Perinus de Ponte
Description:
Titles from text within the borders of the portraits., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem. Rome : [Populus Romanus], [1586-]1588., Imperfect; only the portrait in the lower left quadrant is present, with the rest of the plate trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 148 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., Mounted beside a sheet (5.5 x 15.2 cm), trimmed from the bottom of a different portrait plate, with the engraved title: Philippe Villiers de L'isle-Adam, Grand Prieur de France ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Populus Romanus
Subject (Name):
Blanchefort, Guy de, 1446-1513, Carretto, Fabrizio del, 1455-1521, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Philippe, 1464-1534, and Ponte, Piero del, 1462-1535
Sergent-Marceau, Marie Louise, 1753-1804, printmaker
Published / Created:
1792.
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, bust directed to left, looking to front, with brown hair and beard, and black robe emblazoned with a white Malta cross; within oval."--British Museum online catalogue and "From 'Portraits des grands hommes, femmes illustres et sujets mémorables de France', a series of colour prints executed by Antoine Sergent, Marie Louise Cernel, Louis Le Coeur, Jean Baptiste Morret, Ridé and L. Roger, and published in Paris by Pierre Blin in 1786-1792. The series consists of a frontispiece, a lettered dedication to the King, ninety-two portraits and ninety-two figurative scenes in relation to the portraits (historical events, allegories, reproduction of a painting in the case of Poussin...). It was advertised in the Mercure de France, November 1786, p. 44, as 'Portraits des Grands Hommes', to be published monthly as four prints per livraison (two portraits, two actions) at eight livres per livraison."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
Description:
Title etched below image., Year of publication etched beneath lower border of oval portrait, centered between artist and printmaker signatures., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and plate cut in half, with image separated from title and imprint statement lost. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1869,0612.202., Printed with several plates; see British Museum online catalogue., Letter "K" etched in upper left corner; "No. 9" etched in upper right corner., Image mounted on page 137 and text (lacking imprint statement) mounted on page 148 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.
