BIB_ID
459922
Accession number
MA 176 E50
Creator
Ridley, William, 1764-1838, engraver.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1890. NNPM
Description
1 print : Stipple and etching; image: 82 x 63 mm (oval); sheet: 180 x 118 mm
Notes
Caption title.
Print after a portrait by Allan Ramsay.
Issued as an illustration in: Junius. New ed. London : T. Bensley, 1802, volume II, page 102 (facing).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark and inlaid in sheet 269 x 206 mm. NNPM
Print after a portrait by Allan Ramsay.
Issued as an illustration in: Junius. New ed. London : T. Bensley, 1802, volume II, page 102 (facing).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark and inlaid in sheet 269 x 206 mm. NNPM
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1890. NNPM
Summary
Portrait of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, nearly half-length, directed to front, with head turned slightly to look to left; wearing queue wig, peer's ermine robes with chain, and neckerchief; in an oval, bordered by one line. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
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