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Richard Boyle, Viscount Shannon

Maker

(artist)
1646-1723

(engraver)
1795-1836 (active)

Title

Richard Boyle, Viscount Shannon

Date of Production

1821

Medium

Stipple engraving

Dimensions

Width: 16.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4653

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










Notes

From James Caulfield's Memoirs of the Celebrated Persons Composing the Kit-Cat Club (1821), engraved by Robert Cooper after Godfrey Kneller. Part of a set of unnumbered plates without a title page.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Maker's mark: Recto: lower right, printed below image: Cooper sculp.t

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, printed below image: RICHARD BOYLE / VISCOUNT SHANNON.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, typed: Sir G. KNELLER

Inscription: Recto: lower left, typed: Kit-Cat Club Memoirs, 1821.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, pencil: 1346

Inscription: Recto: lower right, pencil: Nat Port Gal

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

Stamp: Verso: right margin, stamped: TO BE RETURNED TO / THE WITT LIBRARY / 32 PORTMAN SQUARE, / LONDON, W.1.

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