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Object Type
print
Museum number
Q,1.128
Title
Series:
Birch's Heads
Description
Portrait of Richard Steele, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a long wig and neckerchief; in an ornamental oval with curtain beyond; a putto holding a hat on a stick in foreground, surrounded by theatrical attributes; state before publisher's address; after Godfrey Kneller. 1748 Engraving and etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Jacob Houbraken
After:
Sir Godfrey Kneller
School/style
Dutch
British
Production date
1748
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
etching
Dimensions
Height:
355 millimetres
Width:
217 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
For comment on the series see also 1844,0511.13. For an impression of a later state and comment see 1841,1211.145.
Bibliographic references
Ver Huell 1875 / Jacobus Houbraken et son oeuvre
(105)
(under 'Birch-Heads')
O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(4)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Illustration to:
Thomas Birch
Portrait of:
Sir Richard Steele
Associated titles
Associated Title:
The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, Engraved by Mr Houbraken and by Mr Vertue
(London, 1743-1752)
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
(his handwriting on the veso)
Acquisition date
1799
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
Q,1.128
Additional IDs
Other BM number:
1977,U.1255