publish'd according to act of Parliament, Decr. 21st, 1778.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait seated in profile to left reading book within rectangular frame, wearing dark coat, ruffles and his hair tied with ribbon, tree behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Scratched-letter state; plate was later reworked and republished by W. Dickinson and T. Watson on 21 December 1782, with the text below image reengraved and expanded. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1950,0520.259., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 168 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806,
"Portrait seated in profile to left reading book within rectangular frame, wearing dark coat, ruffles and his hair tied with ribbon, tree behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Second state, with plate reworked and new inscriptions engraved. For earlier scratched-letter state published in 1778, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6494., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 580., Mounted on page 218 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:
Publish'd Decr. 21st, 1782, by W. Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street, & T. Watson, No. 33 Strand
Subject (Name):
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806,
