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Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford (1676-1745)
1788
Medium
mezzotint
Measurements
50.4 × 35.3 cm 52.1 × 37.4 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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
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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