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Creator:: Houston, Richard, 1721?-1775, printmaker
Published / Created:: published as the Act directs 10 April 1774.
Call Number:: Portraits B922 no. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Double portrait after Highmore, both just more than half-length standing, Samuel to left leaning back against a ledge with right elbow, holding a scroll, in a dark velvet coat with shoulder-length wig, Nathaniel to right, facing front, looking to left, wearing a pale coat and shoulder-length wig, holding a board at waist level with a pencil in right hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption below image. and Text below image between sitters' names: Long, Ancient Structures and enobled Domes, the Work of Ages past, neglected lay, Till you, O Bucks! by Emulation fired, Snatched from th'inexorable Jaws of Time The Mouldering Ruins of each lofty Pile. - To future Ages shall your Fame be known: And your great Works immortalize your Names, While, others, by misfortune, scarce survive; You, Phoenix like, by your own Ruins live.
Publisher:: Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):: Buck, Samuel, 1696-1779, and Buck, Nathaniel,
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Samuel Buck. Nathaniel Buck [graphic]