Museum Object Number1958.2374 A |
Print (Engraving)
BRITONS-BEHOLDS/ The Best of KINGS.
Prints and Maps
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
Nathaniel Hurd (Engraver)
1729/30
1777
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
1762
1. Inscription; Bottom center, in base of plinth; Nathaniel Hurd Sculp. 1762.
Portrait
Ink; Watercolor; Paper (laid)
Engraved, Hand colored, Painted
Platemark unusually shaped, following arched shape of design.
4.4 (H) , 5.7 (W) , 3.8 (Image H) , 5 (Image W)
11.2 (H) , 14.6 (W) , 3.8 (Image H) , 5 (Image W)
H at left. W at bottom. Arched-top plate. Plate H (at center): 3.9 in. (9.9 cm). Plate W (at bottom): 5.2 in. (13.1 cm). Image H at center. Image W taken .4 cm up from the bottom. Chain intervals: 2.5 cm; 11 laid lines per cm.
1762
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
none
Hand colored with translucent watercolors
Text available soon.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1991 To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum.
• Published: no. 25, pp. 86-7.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 193, pp. 295-6.