Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 2 f. 0 1/4 i. by 2 f. 7 i. high., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate LV from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and On same sheet: Virgin and child.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1784, by John Boydell, engraver, in Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England and Norfolk.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Houghton Hall (England)
Autographed letter signed from Joseph Farington to John Boydell written from Houghton Hall the seat of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford where he spent three years making drawings of the paintings for Boydell's Collection of prints after the most capital paintings in England (2 vols., 1782). He reports on the progress of his work in general and in particular his work with "the Paul Brills".
Description:
In English. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Boydell, John, 1720-1804., Houghton Hall (England), and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 2 f. 10 1/4 i. by 3 f. 7 1/4 i. high., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., and Plate XVII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2.
Publisher:
Published Mar. 25th, 1780, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: Cavr. Luti pinxit ; Picot sculpsit., Proof before letters; for a lettered state with the imprint "Published Mar. 25th, 1780, by Jno. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London," see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 4., Engraved after a painting formerly in the collection of Robert Walpole at Houghton., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 101 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.
Publisher:
John Boydell
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Houghton Hall (England)
