William Camden [print] / Perkins & Heath, patent hardened steel plate.

Record ID: 
452824
Accession number: 
MA 1254.43
Created: 
[London?] : [G. & W. B. Whittaker?], [1823]
Credit: 
Purchased before 1920.
Description: 
1 print : steel engraving ; sheet: 118 x 75 mm
Notes: 

Title supplied by cataloger.
Steel engraved portrait issued as a frontispiece to Pinnock's catechism of British geography (London : G. & W. B. Whittaker, 1823).
From the collection Autograph Letters and Original Manuscripts of or relative to Members of the Royal House of Tudor. Housed in two bound volumes when purchased from Pearson; subsequently disbound. Some items were removed in 1920, cataloged, and housed in the Rulers of England sequence.
Engraving trimmed and inlaid in larger sheet.

Summary: 

Portrait of William Camden; half length, to the right, wearing herald's coat with chain, ruff, and skull-cap; with short beard.

Provenance: 
Purchased from J. Pearson & Co.
Classification: