Sr. Walter Ralegh [graphic] / J. Houbraken sculpsit Amst.

Creator:

Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker.

Published/Created:

[London] :
Impensis J. & P. Knapton Londini,
1739.

Physical Description:

1 print : engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 378 x 239 mm, on sheet 533 x 326 mm

Related Links:

http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitemg.asp?itemid=lwlpr29944

Notes:

Title from text in image.
Artist's name from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Text below image: In the possesion of Peter Burrel Esqr.
Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751].

Abstract:

"Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, bust directed to right but looking at the viewer, with feathered hat, wearing ruff and brocaded jacket; in an architectural oval with pedestal below; the sitter's decapitated head next to an axe in lower left; a putto writing in a book on top of a globe, an anchor and baton under his knees."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Sir Walter Ralegh
Sir Walter Raleigh

Topics:

John and Paul Knapton (Firm), publisher.
Raleigh, Walter,--Sir,--1552?-1618--Portraits.
Zuccaro, Federico, approximately 1540-1609, artist.

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings--England--London--1739.
Portrait prints.

Format:

Image

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Portraits
R163
no. 1
Portraits R163 no. 1 Impression 2
Portraits R163 no. 1+ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

11078854

Yale Collection:

LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr29197

Citation:

Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, p. 538

OID:

15960311

PID:

digcoll:2796564