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• Author/Creator:Michel, Jean-Baptiste, 1748-1804, printmaker.
  
• Title:Francis Halls [graphic] : in the Common Parlour at Houghton / F. Halls pinxit ; G. Farington delint. ; J.B. Michel sculpsit.
  
• Publication:London : Published May 1st, 1777, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, [1 May 1777]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 18.6 x 14 cm, on sheet 68 x 51 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio 225 884S Copy 2
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 17.4 x 12.6 cm.
    Sheet trimmed within plate mark; second plate that might have been printed on the same sheet is not present.
    Window mounted (with one other print) to 39 x 28 cm.
    Mounted on page 181 in volume 1 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world. London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
    
  • Provenance:Purchased from William D. Breaker (through G.A. Baker) by W.S. Lewis; 1939.
    Borden Sale, American Art Gallery, 17-19 February 1913, lot 812. Rains Galleries, New York, NY, 27 November 1935 (W.D. Breaker sale), lot 688, bought in by Breaker.
    
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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Drawer 777.05.01.07
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes: Printed on sheet with one other print. To view other title, search by call number: 777.05.01.07.
    
  • Provenance:Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
    
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• Medium:wove paper.
  
• Notes:Title from text below image.
  Text below title: Size of the picture, 1 f. 3 1/4 i. by 1 f. 7 1/2 i. high.
  Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat.
  Plate 39 in the first volume of: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia ... London : J. & J. Boydell, 1788.
  
• Summary:"Portrait of a young man, half-length, with elbow leaning on the back of a chair placed in front of him."--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• With:On same sheet: Captain of banditti.
  
• References:Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings, and woodcuts, 49
  
• Subjects:Hals, Frans, 1584-1666, depicted.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912--Ownership.
  Breaker, William D.--Ownership.
  
• Genre/Form:Book illustrations.
  Reproductions.
  Portrait prints.
  Etchings--England--London--1777.
  Engravings--England--London--1777.
  
• Also listed under:Hals, Frans, 1584-1666, artist.
  Boydell, John, 1720-1804, publisher.