Mr. Gray [graphic]

Description

Title: Mr. Gray [graphic]
Creator: Mason, William, 1725-1797, printmaker
Published / Created: [between 1771 and 1790]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait of Thomas Gray; head and shoulders, directed to left, head in profile, wearing a plain open coat, jacket, cravat, high collar and long hair tied at the nape beneath a short wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1907,0701.3.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 76 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
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Provenance: Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 11.2 x 9.4 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Portrait prints
Etchings England 1771
Material: etching ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Subjects: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 > Portraits
England > 1771
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

Access: Public
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