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Object Type
Museum number: Gg,1.431
Description: Portrait of William Wycherley, dramatist, after Lely; bust to half-right, eyes to front, in long curling wig, cravat and drapery Brush drawing in grey wash on pink prepared paper
Producer name: Drawn by: George Vertue; After: Sir Peter Lely
School/style
Production date: 1684-1756
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 30 millimetres; Width: 26 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Copy of original in NPG. Another version (the original?), formerly in Peel collection. Mounted with Gg,01.426
Bibliographic references: Croft-Murray (unpublished) / Catalogue of British Drawings in the British Museum: artists born 1665 to 1715 (34); Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain (11(f))
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2009 April-June, Twickenham, Orleans House Gallery, Shakespeare Cast as the Nation's Hero
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1799
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Gg,1.431

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