BIB_ID
433250
Accession number
MA 409.3
Creator
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, engraver.
Display Date
[London] : [T. Osborne?] 1745.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving, image: 192 x 131 mm; plate mark: 293 x190 mm sheet: 305 x 201 mm
Notes
Caption title.
Lettered within frame below image: From a curious Limning drawn by Isaac Oliver in the Collection of Dr Richard Mead.
After a painting by Isaac Oliver.
Print issued as a frontispiece to Arthur Collins' Letters and Memorials of State [...] written and collected by Sir Henry Sydney, the famous Philip Sydney, [etc.] (London : T. Osborne, 1746).
Lettered within frame below image: From a curious Limning drawn by Isaac Oliver in the Collection of Dr Richard Mead.
After a painting by Isaac Oliver.
Print issued as a frontispiece to Arthur Collins' Letters and Memorials of State [...] written and collected by Sir Henry Sydney, the famous Philip Sydney, [etc.] (London : T. Osborne, 1746).
Provenance
Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1905.
Summary
Portrait of a young man, full-length, seated slightly to right on a bank underneath a tree, with arms folded and looking to front; clean-shaven and wearing a hat, doublet, lace collar, and glove on his left hand; another glove lying next to him on left, and sword on right; with buildings and gardens in background; in a rectangular frame placed on a pedestal.
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