BIB_ID
290925
Accession number
MA 457.31
Creator
Ravenet, Simon François, 1706-1774, engraver.
Published
[17--].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,, 1907.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 140 x 80 mm
Notes
Includes a quotation from Pliny's Epistulae.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscript poems written by or attributed to Jonathan Swift. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 457 for more information.
Probably after a portrait by Rupert Barber now held by Trinity College, Dublin.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscript poems written by or attributed to Jonathan Swift. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 457 for more information.
Probably after a portrait by Rupert Barber now held by Trinity College, Dublin.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
Summary
Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of Irish satirist and divine Jonathan Swift, facing left.
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