Museum Object Number1965.2572 |
Print (Mezzotint)
The Right Hon.\ble Sr. Robert Walpole
Prints and Maps
Gift of Mrs. Waldron Phoenix Belknap
Gerhard Bockman (Mezzotinter)
Thomas Gibson (Painter)
1686c.1680
17731751
London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
1742-1742
1. Inscription; Lower right; Bockman fecit
2. Inscription; Lower left; T. Gibson pinx
Portrait
Ink; Paper (laid)
Mezzotint
13.5 (H) , 11.4 (W) , 12.3 (Image H) , 10.3 (Image W)
34.2 (H) , 28.9 (W) , 12.3 (Image H) , 10.3 (Image W)
Trimmed inside platemark. Measurements taken at maximum. Chain interval: 2.8-2.9 cm; laid lines 9-10 per cm.
London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
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Beauvais, a small mill in Augoumois that operated for a time for Jean Villedary and used his mark "I. VILLEDARY".
Only one state recorded.
Text available soon.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 57, p. 110.
[Book] Smith, John Chaloner. 1884 British Mezzotinto Portraits; Being a Descriptive Catalogue of These Engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the early part of the present century. 1. 1-460.
• Print listed as no. 24, p. 79.