BIB_ID
413397
Accession number
MA 205.14
Published
[England] : [publisher not identified], [1700]
Credit line
Purchased, 1896.
Description
1 print : engraving and etching ; image: 259 x 190 mm ; sheet: 295 x 195 mm
Notes
Unsigned engraving after a painting by Godfrey Kneller; print issued as a frontispiece portrait to: Luctus Britannici, or Tears of the British Muses for the death of John Dryden (1700).
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.
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
Portrait of John Dryden; 1/2 length, looking to the left, resting his right arm on masonry, holding a wreath, wearing a long wig and loosely draped cloak.
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