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Michele Benedetti
1745-1810
The Right Honble Edmund Burke / Sir Joshua Reynolds RA pinxt 1775 ; M. Benedetti sculp: Pupil to F. Bartolozzi RA.
Published
[London] : Pub'd C. Dyer Compton Strt. Soho, [1791?]
stipple engraving
image: 232 x 193 mm (oval); sheet: 285 x 225 mm
Peel 3190
Notes
After a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
The second state according to Hamilton; possibly a 19th century restrike, with the Dyer imprint; an earlier state gives M. Benedetti as the publisher, with a date of August 24, 1791.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
The second state according to Hamilton; possibly a 19th century restrike, with the Dyer imprint; an earlier state gives M. Benedetti as the publisher, with a date of August 24, 1791.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil on album leaf below mounted image: Pub. by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row, Dec 1 1796 (from a print in the Lewis-Walpole Library).
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Oval portrait of Edmund Burke, half length, shoulders forward, looking 3/4 to the left, wearing a plain buttoned coat.
Associated names
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Dyer, Charles George, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Dyer, Charles George, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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