print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.1361
- Title
- Object: Sir Nicholas Bacon
- Description
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Portrait of Thomas Wilson (formerly identified as Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal); half length to right, in cap, ruff and furred gown; in plain oval; after Federico Zuccaro; illustration to Smollett's 'History of England'. 1757
Etching
- Production date
- 1757
- Dimensions
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Height: 75 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 54 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Although the engraving is titled "Nicholas Bacon", a portrait resembling the sitter of this print is identified as Thomas Wilson, see the painting in the National Portrait Gallery, London, inv.no.3799, painted by an unknown artist in 1575. A painting by an unknown artist showing Nicholas Bacon (showing a different sitter from our plate) is also in the National Portrait Gallery, London, inv.no.164.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.1361
