Francesco Bartolozzi "Sir Anthony Mildmay" gravura 1799

Sir Anty. Mildmay

• Object type

  • print
  • book-illustration 

• Museum number

  1852,0612.274

• Title (object)

  • Sir Anty. Mildmay

• Description

  Portrait; full-length standing to left, right hand on the edge of a table beside a book and ink-stand, left on the hilt of his sword, with a short full beard and moustache, wearing a dark decorated doublet and hose and small ruff; with armour behind him, his scabbard on the floor in front of him, his tall dark hat on the corner of a chair behind the table; illustration to Adolphus' 'British Cabinet' (1799).
  Etching and stipple

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• Producer name

  • Print made by: Edward Harding 
  • Published by: Edward Harding 

• School/style

  • British

• Date

  • 1799

• Production place

  • Published in: London 
  • (Europe,British Isles,England,London)

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • stipple 
  • etching 

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Lettered below the image with the title and 'Harding sculp. / Pubd. May 1799 by Edwd. Harding 98 Pall Mall'.

• Curator's comments

  Details from O'Donoghue.
  From 'The British Cabinet; containing portraits of illustrious personages, with biographical memoirs', by John Adolphus, published by E. Harding, 2 vols., 1799, 1800.

• Location

  Not on display (British XVIIIc Unmounted Roy)

• Associated names

  • Illustration to: John Adolphus 
  • Portrait of: Sir Anthony Mildmay 

• Associated titles

  • Associated Title: British Cabinet

• Acquisition name

  • Purchased from: Lumley 

• Acquisition date

  1853

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  1852,0612.274