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    • Author/Creator:Spooner, Charles, 1720-1767, printmaker.
    • Title:The Right Honble. William Pitt Esqr [graphic] : late one of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State / W. Hoare pinxt. ; C. Spooner fect.
    • Publication:[London] : Print'd for Jno. Smith at Hogarth's Head facing Wood Street, Cheapside, Octr. 19th 1761.
    • Physical Description:1 print : mezzotint ; sheet 152 x 117 mm

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      • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
        Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library

      • Call Number: Portraits P688 no. 1
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • 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:laid paper.
    • Notes:Title engraved below image.
      Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of letterpress text below.
      Exhibited: "In the Midst of the Jovial Crowd" : Young James Boswell in London, 1762-1763" at The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, April - October 2013.
    • Summary:"Portrait, half-length seated almost in profile to left, right arm resting on a table beside him, looking towards the viewer, wearing a velvet coat and long white wig; after Hoare; printed on the same sheet as a public letter explaining the sitter's resignation."--British Museum online catalogue. See Registration number: 1902,1011.5172.
    • Variant and related titles:Right Honourable William Pitt Esquire
    • Format:Visual Material
    • References:Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 416, no. 11
    • Subjects:Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, depicted.
    • Genre/Form:Portrait prints.
      Mezzotints--England--London--1761.
    • Also listed under:Hoare, William, 1707-1792, artist.
      Smith, J. (John), active approximately 1750-1792, publisher.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11163519