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Description: | A portrait of a young man in an ornate frame. The subject is facing the viewer. He wears a long curly wig and armour. The base of the frame is decorated with a naked infant to the left holding a burning torch in his right hand. There are standards and a helmet to the centre and right with a battle scene on a tablet below. The frame is inscribed "CHARLES MORDAUNT EARL OF PETERBOROUGH".
Technique: engraving (printing process)
medium: ink (black)
Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough by Jacobus Houbraken, Godfrey Kneller (after), about 1745, (1920.381). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.103577 | Go to resource |
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