print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1841,1211.157
- Title
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Object: George Morley Bishop of Winchester.
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Series: Birch's Heads
- Description
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Portrait, half-length to left, looking to front; wearing ecclesiastical robes, bands and hat; in an oval frame decorated with Acanthus leaves on top, placed above a pedestal, with crest in front; two books and scroll with ground plan of a building on right; curtain above on left, and bishop's hat above frame on right; illustration to Tindal's 'The continuation of Mr. Rapin's History of England' (London); published state; after Lely. 1740
Engraving and etching
- Production date
- 1740
- Dimensions
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Height: 360 millimetres
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Width: 234 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment on the series see also 1844,0511.13. For impressions of an earlier state see 1979,U.1213 and 1868,0822.6706. For another impression of the same state see also 1868,0822.6707.
After the painting by Peter Lely in the National Portrait Gallery, London, inv.no.2951. According to records there is also a painting of his portrait, dated around 1661, at Rousham House in Oxfordshire. This plate was engraved in Amsterdam.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The continuation of Mr. Rapin's History of England
- Acquisition date
- 1841
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1841,1211.157
