print
- Museum number
- P,8.58
- Title
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Object: William Duke of Gloucester
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Series: Birch's Heads
- Description
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Portrait of William, Duke of Gloucester, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing Roman armour and fur-lined cloak fastened at shoulder; in an ornamental oval on an altar with below a roundel showing the grieving Britannia; state with publisher's address; after Godfrey Kneller. 1745
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1745
- Dimensions
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Height: 355 millimetres (trimmed within plate-mark)
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Width: 216 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment on the series see also 1844,0511.13. For another impression of the same state see 1977,0225.62. For an earlier state see 1868,0822.6759 and 1841,1211.76.
After a painting by Godfrey Kneller, a version with slight alterations of which is in the Royal Collection, inv.no.405613. This plate was engraved in Amsterdam.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: History of England (London, 1744)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- P,8.58