print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1865,0114.381
Title: Object: Gio. Aucuto
Description: Portrait of Sir John Hawkwood, bust-length, in profile to the left, in a long mantle and cloak, wearing a hat, an armorial shield above to the right with a crowned lion rampant upon an escutcheon fleury counter fleury; his autograph and seal below, the seal an eagle wings disclosed with a motto above, in a separate plate mark; after Stimmer, derived from a painting by Uccello in the Duomo, Florence Etching with stipple
Producer name: After: Paolo Uccello; After: Tobias Stimmer
School/style
Production date: early 19th century
Materials
Technique: etching; stipple
Dimensions: Height: 57 millimetres (autograph platemark); Height: 148 millimetres; Width: 190 millimetres (autograph platemark); Width: 114 millimetres
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Bibliographic references: O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (7); Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (548) (copied after Stimmer)
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1865
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1865,0114.381

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