Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford (1676-1745)

Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford (1676-1745)
 1788

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
mezzotint
Measurements
50.4 × 35.3 cm 52.1 × 37.4 cm
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Goodwin 131; Smith IV 1554, no. 149
Printing/Publishing
published by John and Josiah Boydell, London
Inscription
printed in ink below image l.l.: Vanloo Pinxit.
printed in ink below image l.c.: SIR ROBERT WALPOLE, (coat of arms), afterwards EARL of ORFORD. / Prime Minister to King George the First and King George the Second. In the Blue Damask Bed Chamber of Houghton. / Published Jany. 1st. 1788. by John & Josiah Boydell, No (o in superscript above . ) 90 Cheapside London.
printed in ink below image l.r.: James Watson Sculpsit
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.l.: 22796/DC / P.
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.c.: CS 149 III/IV. 1544
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.r.: B. 6357
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.r.: 606/5
stamped in ink on reverse l.r.: NATIONAL GALLERY / OF VICTORIA
Accession Number
606-5
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Another Work Law, Civics and Protest Portraits
Subjects (specific)
earls nobles (aristocrats) order insignias patrons (philanthropists) politicians prime ministers reproductive prints Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford

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