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A well known society of Worthy Aldermen
Title
A well known society of Worthy Aldermen [graphic] / from an original picture by T. Hudson in Goldsmith Hall London.
Publication
[London] : Printed for Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street & John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhil, [between 1752 and 1756]
Physical Description
1 print : mezzotint ; sheet 25. 9 x 36 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title and printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Publication date from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1231.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
Summary
"Benn's Club; group portrait of six aldermen around table in club, all seen seated whole-length and mostly to front, waiter standing at left polishing glass; l-r, Sir Thomas Rawlinson, Sir Henry Marshall, Edmond Ironside, Robert Alsop, Benn and John Blashford, a letter on the floor at his feet addressed to him at 'Bowcombe in the Isle of Wight', franked by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 25, 2013
References
Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 5, page 54
Genre/Form
Portrait prints.
Mezzotints - England - London - 1752.
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
Also listed under
John Bowles & Son, publisher.
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