BIB_ID
440035
Accession number
MA 563.6
Creator
Sturt, John, 1658-1730, engraver.
Display Date
[London] : [Benjamin Motte], [1726]
Description
1 print : engraving and etching ; image: 150 x 95 mm; sheet: 154 x 99 mm
Notes
Caption title.
Caption text continues: Compositum jus, fasque animi, sanctosque recessus / Mentis, & incoctum generoso pectus honesto.
Signed within image at lower right, "Sturt et. Sheppard Sc.".
Print issued as a frontispiece plate in the first edition of Jonathan Swift's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships (London : Benjamin Motte, 1726); this is a copy of the second state of the engraving, with the inscription "Captain Lemuel Gulliver of Redriff. Ætat. suæ LVIII" appearing in the oval border of the portrait.
Trimmed within plate mark.
Caption text continues: Compositum jus, fasque animi, sanctosque recessus / Mentis, & incoctum generoso pectus honesto.
Signed within image at lower right, "Sturt et. Sheppard Sc.".
Print issued as a frontispiece plate in the first edition of Jonathan Swift's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships (London : Benjamin Motte, 1726); this is a copy of the second state of the engraving, with the inscription "Captain Lemuel Gulliver of Redriff. Ætat. suæ LVIII" appearing in the oval border of the portrait.
Trimmed within plate mark.
Summary
Bust length portrait of the fictional character Lemuel Gulliver, facing 3/4 to the right, with am oval frame, wearing a loose cloak.
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