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Description: | bound volume (dimensions 54 x 38 x 6) inscr. on plate below image "The Right Honourable Charles Earle of Dorset & Middlesex, / Baron Buckhurst, Lord Chamberlain of the Household, on of the Lords of their Majties. / most Honble. Privy Councill, Lord Leiutenant of the County of Sussex, and Knight / of the most Noble Order of the Garter &c."; inscr. on plate b.l. "G. Kneller Eques Pinxit."; inscr. on plate b.r. "I. Smith fecit et excudit"; inscr. on page t.r. hand-written in brown ink "58" CRE SMITH, John; (English; 1652-1743) AFTER KNELLER, Godfrey, Sir; (English; 1646-1723) PUB SMITH, John; (English; 1652-1743) Part of William Hunter's original bequest, this is one of three volumes together containing 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.
Smith's close association with leading portrait painter Kneller, author of this portrait, was key to his success. From around 1690 almost all engravings after portraits by Kneller, were executed by Smith.
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset was a poet and politician. His portrait is one of a group of Lords and Earls in the volume. A portrait of the Earl's son and daughter, also after Kneller, is included in volume two (Glaha 16221). | 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 : HALF-LENGTH : ALBUM : OVAL : LACE CRAVAT : WIG : EARL : BARON : BATTLE : LORD LEIUTENANT : PRIVEY COUNCIL : ORDER OF THE GARTER : 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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