print
- Museum number
- 1842,0806.395
- Title
- Object: Martin Folkes Esqr
- Description
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Portrait seated slightly to left, half-length with his right hand raised, eyes to front, wearing long wig, and open jacket over waistcoat; a pedestal with base of broken column in background to the left; after the painting owned by the Royal Society, London; touched proof before letters.
Etching and engraving, touched with white and some ink
- Production date
- 1742 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 321 millimetres
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Width: 236 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The painting was made in 1741. See also Faber's mezzotint of the painting, made in 1742 (Chaloner Smith 132). For a later proof before letters with alterations, including the change to Folkes' left shoulder indicated here, see Cc,1.123.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1842
- Acquisition notes
- 1842,0608.373 to 409 were purchased directly by the BM at the sale of Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill. The hammer price of the 17 lots was £165 10s 6d, which with the addition of 5% auction tax became £174 2s 3d. The price given here for each lot is the hammer price.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1842,0806.395