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Description: | bound volume (dimensions 54 x 38 x 6) inscr. on plate below image "The most noble PRINCE THOMAS HOLLES, Duke of NEWCASTLE / Marquis and Earl of CLARE, Viscount HAUGHTON, Baron PELHAM of LAUGHTON / Lord Chamberlain of His Majties. Household, Lord Lieutenant of the County's of / MIDDLESEX & NOTTINGHAM. Custos Rotulorum of the Same County's Lod: / Warden of the forrest of SHERWOOD one of the Lords of His Majties. most Honinscr. on plate b.l.e. Privy Council and Knight of the most Noinscr. on plate b.l.e order of the GARTER"; inscr. on plate b.l. "G. Kneller S.R.I. et Mag. Brit. Baronet pinx"; inscr. on plate b.r. "Sold by I. Smith at ye Lyon and Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden"; inscr. on page t.r. hand-written in brown ink "44" CRE FABER, John II; (Dutch; active 1712-1756) AFTER KNELLER, Godfrey, Sir; (English; 1646-1723) PUB SMITH, John; (English; 1653-1742) Part of William Hunter's original bequest, this is one of three volumes which together contain 488 mezzotints, almost all made or published by John Smith. About two thirds are portraits of eminent late Stuart, early Hanoverian persons, and one third fancy and mythological subjects.
Instrumental in raising the standard of mezzotint portraits, Smith was the first British printmaker to gain a European reputation, and examples of his work were essential for any serious early to mid 18th century European print collection.
Hunter's set of volumes is a rare surviving example of a comprehensive collection of mezzotints compiled in the 1730s.
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was a whig politician. He is pictured here as a young man before he became Prime Minister from 1754-56. This print is among a group of portraits of aristocrats in this volume. This print is by John Faber and after Kneller, many of whose portraits Smith himself engraved. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : THREE-QUARTER-LENGTH : ALBUM : WIG : COLLAR : ORDER OF ST GEORGE : WAND : DUKE : EARL : PRIVY-COUNCIL : VOLUME : HUNTER VOLUME : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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