BIB_ID
439920
Accession number
MA 46.55
Creator
Parkes, Robert Bowyer, 1830-, engraver.
Display Date
London : Published June 5th. 1888, by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. 13 & 14, Pall Mall East, [1888]
Description
1 print : mezzotint and stipple engraving ; image: 390 x 311 mm; sheet: 450 x 320 mm
Notes
Title from item; imprint centered above image.
Portrait engraved by Robert Bowyer Parkes after a painting by Alexander Nasmyth.
Part of a collection of 54 letters and poems from Robert Burns to Mrs. Dunlop between 1786 and 1796. Also housed with MA 45. See related records for more information.
Lettered state reads below the image: Painted by Alex.r Nasmyth / Engraved by R.B. Parkes. / London, Published June 5th. 1888, by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. 13 & 14, Pall Mall East.
Impression before letters.
"The Lennox-Boyd database describes an earlier state with the publication line above the image and before the artists' names; he cites an impression in this state signed in pencil by the engraver."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalog.
Portrait engraved by Robert Bowyer Parkes after a painting by Alexander Nasmyth.
Part of a collection of 54 letters and poems from Robert Burns to Mrs. Dunlop between 1786 and 1796. Also housed with MA 45. See related records for more information.
Lettered state reads below the image: Painted by Alex.r Nasmyth / Engraved by R.B. Parkes. / London, Published June 5th. 1888, by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. 13 & 14, Pall Mall East.
Impression before letters.
"The Lennox-Boyd database describes an earlier state with the publication line above the image and before the artists' names; he cites an impression in this state signed in pencil by the engraver."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalog.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil at lower right: R.B. Parkes.
Summary
Head and shoulders portrait of Robert Burns facing front and looking away to left, wearing a dark coat open over a pale waistcoat with frilled cravat; landscape background; with the title in the oval frame within the image, and against the brickwork below "Born MDCCLIX, Died MDCCXCVI".
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