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James Radcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater

Maker

(artist)
1646-1723

(engraver)
1684-1756

Title

James Radcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater

Date of Production

circa 1714

Medium

Line engraving

Dimensions

Height: 14.5 cm
Width: 10.8 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4648

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

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Stamp: Recto: upper right, stamped in black: WITT / LIBRARY

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, printed below image: JAMES EARL of DERWENTWATER / (Executed 1716.)

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, typed: Derwentwater, James Radcliffe, Earl of. / From an engraving by G. Vertue, after a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller. / BORN in 1688. Bred up in the Roman Catholic faith, his near / affinity in blood and religion to the Old Pretender rendered him desirous / of assisting in restoring him to the throne of his ancestors. Full of / these thoughts, he joined in the ill-concerted rebellion of 1715; and / without effecting the smallest service to the cause was obliged to / surrender as a prisoner at discretion. He was executed on Tower Hill / in 1716.

Inscription: Verso: lower left, pencil: 934/56(6)

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