Object Number 1954.0016.005 A

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

JOHN LOCKE Esq.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

George Vertue (Engraver)
1684-07/24/1756

Sir Godfrey Kneller (Painter)
1646-1743

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

1738

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Bottom center in image; G. KNELLER Equis. PINXIT. 1697.
2. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; In the Possession of the Rev.\d D.\r William Geekie.
3. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; G. Vertue Sculp. 1738.

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Ink; Paper (laid); Paper (wove)

Techniques

Engraved, Line Etched

Dimensions (inches)

14.4 (H) , 9.35 (W) , 13.92 (Image H) , 8.9 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

36.7 (H) , 23.75 (W) , 13.92 (Image H) , 8.9 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H at left. W above bottom. Top and right plate marks not available. Chain interval: 2.5-2.7 cm; laid lines 9 per cm.

Publication Date

1738

Watermark

Strasburg lily

Edition Notes

First published in: The Works of John Locke, 2 vols. (London: John Churchill at the Black Swan, 1714), 1: frontispiece.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 58, p. 111.