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print
;
album
Object Type
print
album
Museum number
1931,0413.188
Description
Portrait of Matthew Parker, half-length, sitting at desk, three-quarter to right, wearing ecclesiastical robes and hat, opening the bible with one hand and pointing at the page with the other, bell and box on the desk, hourglass at windowsill in the right background, in an oval frame; after Bery's illumination at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, after Lyne; cut along the oval. c.1769 Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Michael Tyson
After:
R Lyne
After:
T Berry
School/style
British
Production date
1769
(circa)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
108 millimetres
(trimmed)
Width:
84 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
The print is pasted in volume I of Richard Bull's collection of prints by amateurs, see 1931,0413.1. Date from O,8.51.
Bibliographic references
O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(3)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Colnaghi
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Richard Bull
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Elizabeth Bull
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Richard Henry Alexander Bennet
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Richard Henry Alexander Bennet
Acquisition date
1931
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1931,0413.188