print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.1450
- Title
- Object: George John Earl Spencer, K.G. &c. &c. &c.
- Description
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Portrait of George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, nearly whole length, seated slightly to left in an armchair in a library room, with legs crossed, looking to left, holding an open book on his knee, his right arm resting on a table on which lies an inkwell with quill pens, a book, and two lamps; wearing double-breasted coat with star, fastened with three buttons; bookcases in background; illustration to Dibdin's 'Aedes Althorpinae' (1822); private plate; after Phillips; published state.
Stipple and engraving on chine collé
- Production date
- 1822
- Dimensions
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Height: 334 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 248 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Another impression of this print (1861,0608.164) is signed by J H Robinson. It is possible that Robinson began the plate that Finden completed.
Martin Hopkinson (email April 2021): The portrait is in the John Rylands Library , there mistakenly assigned to Jacob Thompson
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Aedes Althorpinae
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.1450