"Portrait of Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby; bust, looking to the right; with short beard, wearing cap; after Holbein."--British Museum online catalogue and "This is one of 75 etchings from John Chamberlaine's series of imitations of drawings 'Original Designs of the Most Celebrated Masters in his Majesty's Collection' (quarto edition, London, 1812; folio edition in 1793). The plates are executed in etching, aquatint (proof impressions before aquatint exist) and stipple, and made between 1790s and 1812 by Bartolozzi, Tomkins, Shepster, Pastorini, G.F. Lewis, G. Lewis and others. ... Most plates of this series are lettered 'In his Majesty's collection'."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
Alternative Title:
Edward Stanley Earl of Derby
Description:
Title etched above image., "In his Majesty's collection"--Below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1948,0315.11.3., Mounted on page 122 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:
Published as the act directs Novr. 1, 1793, by I. Chamberlaine
