print;
book of prints
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.15-16
- Title
- Object: Woodburn's Gallery of Rare Portraits
- Description
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"Woodburn's Gallery of Rare Portraits; consisting of Original Plates by Cecil, Deleram, Droeshout, Elstracke, Faithorne, Loggan, Pass, Payne, Vertue, Vandergucht, White &c. with Fac-Simile Copies from the Rarest and Most Curious Portraits, illustrative of Granger's Biographical History of England, Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, Burnet's History of His Own Time, Pennant's London, &c. [...]" (London, George Jones) 2 volumes, 1816; containing approximately 200 portraits of different sizes and by various printmakers of eminent English men and women, many restrikes from original seventeenth- and eighteenth-century plates. Bound in two volumes with letterpress titlepages and list of portraits.
Etching
Engraving
Mezzotint
Woodcut
Stipple
- Production date
- 1816
- Dimensions
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Height: 422 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Width: 264 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- On title page: "Price Twenty Guineas--Large Paper"
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Woodburn's Gallery of Rare Portraits
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.15-16
