print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1849,1031.38
- Title
- Object: Thomas Hearne M.A. of Edmund Hall Oxon
- Description
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Portrait of Thomas Hearne; half length, to the left, his left hand on hip, right hand holding open book with title 'Oath of Alleg'; with shoulder length hair, wearing open jacket over waistcoat, gown, and bands; a book shelf in background; after Tillemans; frontispiece to Curll's 'A Vindication of those who take the Oath of Allegiance' (1731); first state.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1731
- Dimensions
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Height: 164 millimetres
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Width: 112 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Vertue engraved three different plates of the same portrait of Hearne (Alexander 377-9). This plate was reissued after Hearne's death with his dates, and was also used as a frontispiece to Hearne's 'Life' (Oxford, 1772).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: A Vindication of those who take the Oath of Allegiance
- Acquisition date
- 1849
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1849,1031.38
