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Jacob Houbraken (engraver)
Hubert-François Gravelot (draughtsman and engraver)
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1738)
engraving and etching
35.4 × 22.0 cm (image) 36.9 × 22.9 cm (plate) 42.1 × 28.6 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959/60
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Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
(1738)
from The Heads and Characters of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain by Thomas Birch, published by John and Paul Knapton, London 1743–52
Medium
engraving and etching
Measurements
35.4 × 22.0 cm (image) 36.9 × 22.9 cm (plate) 42.1 × 28.6 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959/60
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Ver Huell 22; O'Donoghue 6; IFF 568 (Gravelot)
Inscription
printed in ink below image l.l.: J. Houbraken sculps. Amst.
Accession Number
456-5
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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Subjects (general)
Another Work Law, Civics and Protest Portraits
Subjects (specific)
cartouches (ornament) earls knights (landholders) menswear nobles (aristocrats) order insignias rapiers statesmen