print; book of prints

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Object Type: print; book of prints
Museum number: 1920,0604.53.1-21
Description: A book of 62 portraits of various illustrious Englishmen of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and a 'Frontispiece' showing Britannia pointing to a temple of fame and next to her a shield bearing the bust of George III. Stitched together in blue paper wrappers (reissue of plates from Thomas Mortimer's, British Plutarch' (Edward Dilly, London, 12 vols, 1762). Etching and engraving
Producer name: Published by: Laurie & Whittle (frontispiece); Print made by: Thomas Kitchin; After: Samuel Wale; Print made by: John Fougeron; Print made by: François Antoine Aveline; Print made by: William Tringham Senior
School/style
Production date: 1800 (frontispiece)
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 162 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page); Height: 120 millimetres (approx. size of each plate (except frontispiece plate)); Width: 265 millimetres; Width: 287 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This is a reissue of the plates from Thomas Mortimer's 'British Plutarch', published by Edward Dilly, London, in 12 volumes in 1762. With the exception of the first page in the volume, which is printed from two juxtaposed plates, the portraits are etched and engraved three to a plate, making a total of 22 separate plates. Printed on wove paper watermarked 1791 and 1796. Blue paper wrapper is inscribed in pen on the front: "No. 78 (63 whole-length Portraits 4/)" Loose impressions of these prints are kept elsewhere in the collection.
Location: Not on display
Subjects: ruler; christian cleric; military; author/poet; scientist; explorer
Associated names: Portrait of: David Beaton, Cardinal Archbishop of St Andrews; Portrait of: John Colet; Portrait of: Sebastian Cabot; Portrait of: John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland; Portrait of: Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset; Portrait of: Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex; Portrait of: Sir Thomas More; Portrait of: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey; Portrait of: Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex; Portrait of: John Knox; Portrait of: Edmund Spenser; Portrait of: Sir Francis Drake; Portrait of: Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester; Portrait of: William Shakespeare; Portrait of: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough; Portrait of: Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury; Portrait of: Admiral Sir George Rooke; Portrait of: George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle; Portrait of: Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury; Portrait of: Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon; Portrait of: Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron Fairfax; Portrait of: John Milton; Portrait of: Edmund Ludlow; Portrait of: Henry Fielding; Portrait of: Jonathan Swift; Portrait of: Alexander Pope; Portrait of: John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester; Portrait of: Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester; Portrait of: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury; Portrait of: Ben Jonson; Portrait of: Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans; Portrait of: George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham; Portrait of: William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury; Portrait of: James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh; Portrait of: Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford; Portrait of: John Locke; Portrait of: Rev Dr Samuel Clarke; Portrait of: George Granville, Baron Lansdowne; Portrait of: Sir Isaac Newton; Portrait of: John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll; Portrait of: Joseph Addison; Portrait of: Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury; Portrait of: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; Portrait of: William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley; Portrait of: Sir Cloudesley Shovell; Portrait of: Matthew Prior; Portrait of: Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford; Portrait of: Sir William Temple; Portrait of: John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester; Portrait of: James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormonde; Portrait of: John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury; Portrait of: Robert Boyle; Portrait of: John Dryden; Portrait of: George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington; Portrait of: John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair; Portrait of: Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke; Portrait of: Sir Francis Walsingham; Portrait of: Sir John Perrot; Portrait of: Sir Walter Raleigh; Portrait of: Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford; Portrait of: George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne; Portrait of: George Anson, Baron Anson; Representation of: George III, King of the United Kingdom; Associated with: Thomas Mortimer
Associated titles
Acquisition date: 1920
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1920,0604.53.1-21

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