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Thomas Wharton, Marquis of Wharton

Maker

(artist)
1646-1723

(engraver)
1795-1836 (active)

Title

Thomas Wharton, Marquis of Wharton

Date of Production

1821

Medium

Stipple engraving

Dimensions

Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 16.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4694

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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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

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

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, printed below image: THOMAS WHARTON / MARQUIS OF WHARTON.

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, pencil: 1026/10(20)

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