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Sir Philip Sydney [print].

BIB_ID
433252
Accession number
MA 409.8
Creator
Scriven, Edward, 1775-1841, engraver.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905. NNPM
Description
1 print : etching & engraving ; image: 182 x 149 mm; sheet: 286 x 222 x mm; mount: 342 x 247 mm
Notes
Lettered below the image with title in open letters and "From the original of Sir Antonio More, in the Collection of / His Grace the Duke of Bedford.", production details: "Drawn by W. Haines & Engraved (with Permission) by E. Scriven." and publication line: "London, Published by Lackington, Allen & Co. and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown."
Plate from the folio large paper edition of Edmund Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain (London : Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Lepard, 1821-1834.); proof state on India proof paper.
Library's copy is cropped at bottom with loss of production details and imprint. NNPM
Provenance
Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1905. NNPM
Summary
Portrait of Philip Sidney as a clean shaven young man, half length to right, wearing ruff, right hand on hip.