BIB_ID
413377
Accession number
MA 205.24
Creator
Townley, Charles, 1746-1800, engraver.
Published
[London] : John Smith, 1710.
Credit line
Purchased, 1896.
Description
1 print : mezzotint ; image: 330 x 279 mm ; sheet: 386 x 294 mm
Notes
Proof before all letters; title, artist, and engraver supplied from British Museum catalog.
Mezzotint by Charles Townley after a painting by John Opie.
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 partially trimmed to plate mark.
Mezzotint by Charles Townley after a painting by John Opie.
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 partially trimmed to plate mark.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed "Proof" in pencil at lower right.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Sotheran, 1896.
Summary
Portrait of William Congreve, standing 1/2 length to the right, face turned forward, wearing wig, open collar, and coat; trees in background.
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