"Portrait of John Fisher, bust-length, in an oval lettered with the title and surmounted by the papal tiara and crossed keys, dressed in a fur-trimmed chimere over his rochet with a Canterbury cap on his head, his decapitated head, a mitre and a child carrying a galero below to the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Publisher from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,68.90., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., and "In the collection of Mr. Richardson"--Below image.
Publisher:
John and Paul Knapton
Subject (Name):
Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535, and Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745
"Portrait of John Fisher, bust-length, in an oval lettered with the title and surmounted by the papal tiara and crossed keys, dressed in a fur-trimmed chimere over his rochet with a Canterbury cap on his head, his decapitated head, a mitre and a child carrying a galero below to the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Publisher from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,68.90., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., "In the collection of Mr. Richardson"--Below image., Mounted on page 99 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., 1 print : engraving on laid paper ; sheet 36.3 x 22.6 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
John and Paul Knapton
Subject (Name):
Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535, and Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745
A copy after the 1734 print from a design by W. Hogarth. The artist Jonathan Richardson, seated at a table, looks through a telescope that is aimed at the bare bottom of his son who stands on the table before him. Through his son the father looks at a volume of "Virgil [A]enid" which lies open on the shelf above. With his right hand he writes with a quill pen on a sheet of paper with the heading 'Note'. On the other shelves along the wall are paintings and small statuary; on the wall below the shelves is a portrait of Milton. On the floor in the lower right edge is an artist's palette and an easel. A dog jumps and barks at the son's feet
Alternative Title:
Complicated Richardson
Description:
Title from caption above image., Signed within image: WH f. [i.e., Wm. Hogarth fecit]., Text below image: "I know well enough my eye is no eye at all. I must apply to my telescope. My son is my telescope, tis by his help I read [the] learned languages.", Page from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... 1794, vol. i, p. 86., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: £14-0--0., and On page 233 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 19.7 x 12.6 cm.
A copy after the 1734 print from a design by W. Hogarth. The artist Jonathan Richardson, seated at a table, looks through a telescope that is aimed at the bare bottom of his son who stands on the table before him. Through his son the father looks at a volume of "Virgil [A]enid" which lies open on the shelf above. With his right hand he writes with a quill pen on a sheet of paper with the heading 'Note'. On the other shelves along the wall are paintings and small statuary; on the wall below the shelves is a portrait of Milton. On the floor in the lower right edge is an artist's palette and an easel. A dog jumps and barks at the son's feet
Alternative Title:
Complicated Richardson
Description:
Title from caption above image., Signed within image: WH f. [i.e., Wm. Hogarth fecit]., Text below image: "I know well enough my eye is no eye at all. I must apply to my telescope. My son is my telescope, tis by his help I read [the] learned languages.", and Page from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... 1794, vol. i, p. 86.
