print
- Museum number
- O,8.80
- Title
- Series: Birch's Heads
- Description
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Portrait of Thomas Wilson (formerly identified as Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal), bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a flat cap and fur-trimmed coat; in an architectural oval with draped curtain beyond and cartouche below; the Purse of the Great Seal below; state before publisher's address; after Federico Zucchero. 1738
Engraving
- Production date
- 1738
- Dimensions
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Height: 367 millimetres
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Width: 234 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment on the series see also 1844,0511.13. For another impression of a proof before publisher's address see 1948,0315.10.107 and proof without letters see 1868,0822.6658. For an impression with additional lettering see also G,8.186 and 1853,0112.1540. This plate was engraved in Amsterdam.
Although the engraving is titled "Nicholas Bacon", a portrait resembling the sitter of this print is identified as Thomas Wilson, see the painting in the National Portrait Gallery, London, inv.no.3799, painted by an unknown artist in 1575. A painting by an unknown artist showing Nicholas Bacon (showing a different sitter from our plate) is also in the National Portrait Gallery, London, inv.no.164.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, Engraved by Mr Houbraken and by Mr Vertue (London, 1743-1752)
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- O,8.80
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 1980,U.1390
