BIB_ID
413405
Accession number
MA 205.18
Creator
Burford, Thomas, approximately 1710-approximately 1779, engraver
Published
[England] : [publisher not identified], [between 1725-1779?].
Credit line
Purchased, 1896.
Description
1 print : mezzotint ; image: 307 x 243 mm ; sheet: 347 x 245 mm
Notes
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 to plate mark.
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Sotheran, 1896.
Summary
3/4 length seated portrait of William Warburton writing a document which reads "The divine legation of Moses" at a table on the left, looking up to right, left hand at his breast, wearing a dressing gown over his suit, bands and chin length wig, with a plaque of Pope hanging behind at left.
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