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• Author/Creator:Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker.
  
• Title:Sr. Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, 1744 [graphic] / F. Zinke effig. p. 1735 ; G. Vertue del. & sculp. 1748.
  
• Publication:[London] : [Robert Dodsley], [1752]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching and engraving with stipple ; sheet 21.9 x 16 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:Mounted on page 130 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
    Year "1735" at end of artist's signature has been altered to "1744" in brown ink, in a contemporary hand.
    
  • Provenance:Sabin; August 1927.
    Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
    
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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: Folio 33 30 Copy 11
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:Mounted on page 166 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.
    1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 22.1 x 15.9 cm.
    Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
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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.
    
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• Medium:laid paper.
  
• Notes:Title from text in image.
  Year "1735" at end of artist's signature later changed to "1744" on plate. For the later state with altered date, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 4.
  Publication information from that of the volume to which this plate is the frontispiece.
  Frontispiece to: Walpole, H. Aedes Walpolianae, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall ... London : [Robert Dodsley], printed in the year MDCCLII [1752].
  Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
  Engraved after the enamel miniature kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
  
• Summary:"Portrait of Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, bust directed to left, wearing long, curly wig, robes and chain of the Order of the Garter, and lace cravat; in ornamental oval frame on table, on which are papers, purse of the Great Seal, portrait bust, plumed hat, cornucopia with money, and other emblems; coat of arms at lower right."--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• Variant and related titles:Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, 1744
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 376
  
• Subjects:Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, depicted.
  Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797--Ownership.
  Knight, William, -1847--Ownership.
  Bull, Richard, 1725-1806--Ownership.
  Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936--Ownership.
  Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944--Ownership.
  
• Genre/Form:Frontispieces.
  Book illustrations.
  Portrait prints.
  Engravings--England--London--1752.
  Etchings--England--London--1752.
  Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.
  
• Also listed under:Zincke, Christian Frederick, 1685-1767, artist.
  Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764, publisher.