Sir Robert Walpole
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Object Details
- graphic artist
- Watson, James
- original artist
- Van Loo, Jean-Baptiste
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- Boydell, Josiah
- Boydell, John
- Boydell, Josiah
- Description
- Mezzotint, trimmed, after portrait by J. B. Van Loo, once in the Blue Damask Bedroom at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2. This was the volume's frontispiece. SI Secretary's Library stamp embossed in lower margin.
- Walpole, Earl of Orford and the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, built Houghton Hall where the paintings reproduced for the two-volume work, The Houghton Gallery, were displayed before their sale to Catherine the Great of Russia in 1779.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Marsh Collection
- 1788
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.03.01
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.03.01
- Object Name
- mezzotint
- Object Type
- Mezzotint
- Other Terms
- Print; Intaglio; Mezzotint
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- plate: 50.5 cm x 35.25 cm; 19 7/8 in x 13 7/8 in
- overall: 51.75 cm x 37.25 cm; 20 3/8 in x 14 21/32 in
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Marsh Collection
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Government
- England
- Record ID
- nmah_786252
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-d612-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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