BIB_ID
413438
Accession number
MA 205.26
Creator
Fourdrinier, Paul, 1698-1758, engraver.
Published
[No place] : [publisher not identified], [between 1720 and 1758]
Credit line
Purchased, 1896.
Description
1 print : engraving and etching ; image: 303 x 251 mm ; sheet: 347 x 258 mm
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger; identity of engraver and artist from the British Museum catalog.
Portrait engraving by Paul Fourdrinier after Charles Jervas.
Proof before letters.
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
Portrait engraving by Paul Fourdrinier after Charles Jervas.
Proof before letters.
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed "Dr Swift" in pen below image.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Sotheran, 1896.
Summary
Portrait of Swift after Jervas; three-quarters length seated to left, a quill in his right hand poised over a book on the table beside him, paper in his left hand, looking away to right, wearing a loose coat over a dark suit, the waistcoat partly unbuttoned to reveal a white shirt, bands and chin-length wig; books at his elbow, pillars behind.
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