John Tidcomb, Esq.
Maker
(artist)
1646-1723
(engraver)
1795-1836 (active)
1646-1723
(engraver)
1795-1836 (active)
Title
John Tidcomb, Esq.
Date of Production
1821
Medium
Stipple engraving
Dimensions
Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 16.6 cm
Width: 16.6 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.4688
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
Transferred to the Courtauld Gallery from the Witt Library in 1990.
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower right, printed below image: Cooper sculp.t
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, printed below image: JOHN TIDCOMB / ESQ.R
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, typed: Sir G. KNELLER
Inscription: Recto: lower left, typed: Kit-Cat Club Memoirs, 1821.
Inscription: Recto: lower right, pencil: Nat Port Gal
Stamp: Recto: right margin, stamped in black: WITT / LIBRARY
Inscription: Verso: lower right, in pencil: 1026/9(17)
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, printed below image: JOHN TIDCOMB / ESQ.R
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, typed: Sir G. KNELLER
Inscription: Recto: lower left, typed: Kit-Cat Club Memoirs, 1821.
Inscription: Recto: lower right, pencil: Nat Port Gal
Stamp: Recto: right margin, stamped in black: WITT / LIBRARY
Inscription: Verso: lower right, in pencil: 1026/9(17)
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