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Portrait of Swift, from Bodleian Painting

Maker

(artist)
1675-1739

(engraver)
1808-1884

(publisher)

Title

Portrait of Swift, from Bodleian Painting

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 27.3 cm
Width: 18.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4582

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

previous owner : Witt, Robert (Sir)

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre margin & recto : : Engraved by B. Holl. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre margin & recto : : SWIFT. / From the Picture / in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. / Under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. / London Published by Charles Knight Ludgare Street //

Inscription: inscription: typed : centre right margin & recto : later Witt inscription : Bodleian Library / Oxford //

Inscription: inscription : manuscript pencil : bottom centre mount & recto : later Witt inscription : ? AFTER C. JERVAS //

Inscription: inscription : manuscript pencil : top left & verso : later Witt inscription : 934/41 (12) //

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