BIB_ID
413348
Accession number
MA 205.13
Creator
Smith, J. (John), 1652-1743, engraver
Published
[England] : [publisher not identified], 1703.
Credit line
Purchased, 1896.
Description
1 print : mezzotint ; image: 230 x 192 mm ; sheet: 268 x 197 mm
Notes
Lettered with title, after which: Ætatis Suæ. 28 - Quantum mutatus ab illo. Virg.
Chaloner Smith notes that this state was published as a frontispiece portrait in Wycherley's Miscellany poems (London : C. Brome, et al., 1704).
Formerly housed with the manuscript of Johnson's Life of Pope and other items; for more information see main record for MA 205.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Chaloner Smith notes that this state was published as a frontispiece portrait in Wycherley's Miscellany poems (London : C. Brome, et al., 1704).
Formerly housed with the manuscript of Johnson's Life of Pope and other items; for more information see main record for MA 205.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Sotheran, 1896.
Summary
Oval portrait of William Wycherley shoulders turned 3/4 to the left, his face turned towards the fron, facing the viewer, wearing long wig, lace cravat, and gown.
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