print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- Ii,3.155
- Title
- Object: Mr Wren
- Description
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Portrait of Sir Christopher Wren; long half length, to the left, looking at viewer; left hand on hip, right hand holding compass, resting on table with hanging sheet of plan of the west end of St Paul's Cathedral; after Kneller; illustration to Cunningham's 'Lives of the Painters' (London: 1830).
Engraving and etching on chine collé
- Production date
- 1830
- Dimensions
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Height: 165 millimetres
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Width: 121 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The painting by Kneller is in the National Portrait Gallery, NPG113.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Lives of the Painters
- Acquisition date
- 1831 (circa)
- Acquisition notes
- The album inventoried as Ii,3 was described as a 'Portfolio containing presentation prints'. This indicates that the print was given to the BM.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Ii,3.155