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Object Type
print
Museum number
1902,1011.1045
Title
Object:
Thomas Tesdale ...
Description
Portrait of Thomas Tesdale, founder of Pembroke College, Oxford, three-quarter length, wearing ruff and gown, and holding gloves and a book; coat of arms in lower margin. 1708/21 Mezzotint
Producer name
Print made by:
John Faber the Elder
Published by:
Henry Parker
School/style
British
Production date
1708-1721
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
Dimensions
Height:
259 millimetres
Width:
199 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
One of a series of forty-five plates of portraits of the founders of Oxford and Cambridge colleges, Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse.
Bibliographic references
Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century
(34.IV)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Thomas Tesdale
Associated places
Associated with:
Pembroke College (Oxford)
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
William Meriton Eaton, 2nd Baron Cheylesmore
Acquisition date
1902
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1902,1011.1045