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Description: | bound volume (dimensions 54 x 38 x 6) inscr. on plate below image "His Excellency Laurence Earl of Rochester, Viscount Hyde of Kenelworth, Baron of Wotton / Basset, Lord Leiutenant, General, & General Governor of his Majesties Kingdome of Ireland, One of the / Lords of his Majesties most Honoble. Privy Council, & Knight of ye most noble Order of the Garter."; inscr. on plate b.l. "G. Kneller pinx."; inscr. on plate b.r. "Sold by I. Smith at ye Lyon and Crown in Russel Street Covent Garden"; inscr. on page t.r. hand-written in brown ink "67" CRE BECKETT, Isaac; (English; 1653-1688) 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 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.
This print after a painting by Kneller, was made by Smith's teacher Beckett, many of whose plate Smith bought and published after his death and included in collections such as this, providing context to his own work. After Beckett's death Smith became the main engraver of Kneller's portraits.
Laurence Hyde, first Earl of Rochester was a tory politician. His portrait is one of a group of Lords and Earls in the volume. | 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 : LORD LEIUTENANT GENERAL : GEORGE : EARL : TREASURER OF ENGLAND : ORDER OF THE GARTER : KNIGHT : IRELAND : PRIVY COUNCIL : CHARLES II : EDWARD HYDE : 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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