Accession number
PML 146639, p. 357 (facing)
Published
London : Sold by M.C. Miller & J. Clark engraver & printseller in Grays Inn, [1733?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from engraved caption.
Portrait of the "Saxon Giant" Maximilian Christopher Miller.
With caption text in two columns, in English and French, the former reading: Near eight Foot high, his Hand, a Foot, & his Finger six Inches long. Born at Leipsick in Saxony A.D. 1674.
Another state of this print exists with the imprint reading: Sold by Sl. Lyne Print Seeller [sic] at the Globe in Newgate Street. See British Museum no. 1914,0520.555.
Library's copy trimmed within platemark.
Inserted after p. 357 into v. 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146639.
Portrait of the "Saxon Giant" Maximilian Christopher Miller.
With caption text in two columns, in English and French, the former reading: Near eight Foot high, his Hand, a Foot, & his Finger six Inches long. Born at Leipsick in Saxony A.D. 1674.
Another state of this print exists with the imprint reading: Sold by Sl. Lyne Print Seeller [sic] at the Globe in Newgate Street. See British Museum no. 1914,0520.555.
Library's copy trimmed within platemark.
Inserted after p. 357 into v. 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146639.
Description
1 print : etching ; 344 x 236 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Portrait of an extraordinarily tall man, standing directed to left, looking away to right, left hand at the hilt of his scimitar, right holding a sceptre against his shoulder, wearing a headress with tall plumes and a mid-length wig, with twirled moustaches; admired by a lady and two gentlemen, the foremost wearing a sash and star, with an open door behind and a picture.
Classification
Catalog link
Department