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Object Type
Museum number: K,57.235
Description: Decorative plaque with six small portrait medallions of poets and playwrights, Joseph Addison, Alexander Pope, Thomas Betterton, Nicholas Rowe, William Congreve and Matthew Prior, grouped around a larger, central medallion of George Granville, Baron Lansdowne. Etching and engraving with some stipple
Producer name: Print made by: Paul Fourdrinier; After: Sir Godfrey Kneller
School/style
Production date: 1713-1758 (c.)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving; stipple
Dimensions: Height: 206 millimetres; Width: 162 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The portrait of Betterton is after Kneller; see K,57.236.
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: George Granville, Baron Lansdowne; Portrait of: Joseph Addison; Portrait of: Alexander Pope; Portrait of: Thomas Betteron; Portrait of: Nicholas Rowe; Portrait of: William Congreve; Portrait of: Matthew Prior
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1818
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: K,57.235

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