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Title:The Right Honourable John Wilkes Esqr. [graphic] : Lord Mayor of the City of London.
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Publication:[London] : [Carington Bowles?], [approximately 1768?]
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Physical Description:1 print : mezzotint ; sheet 14.7 x 12 cm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Call Number: 768.00.00.16
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Notes:Mounted to: 22 x 13 cm.
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Provenance:Grosvenor Prints; May 2023.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Medium:laid paper.
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Notes:Title from text below image.
Seemingly a reduced copy of print by John Dixon that was published in 1768 by Carington Bowles; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.761. See also: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 1, no. 35, page 217. For another reduced copy with a different title, also published by Carington Bowles, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1489.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint from bottom edge.
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Summary:Seated portrait of John Wilkes, holding a scroll marked 'Magna Charta', leaning on a table on which is a copy of his letter 'To the Gentlemen Clergy & Freeholders of the County of Middlesex', and 'Bill of Rights'. A framed painting on the wall behind (left) shows an image of Hercules defeating the Hydra.
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Subjects:Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, depicted.
Heracles (Greek mythological character)--Art.
Hydra (Greek mythology), depicted.
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Genre/Form:Portrait prints.
Mezzotints--England--London--1768.
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Also listed under:Dixon, John, approximately 1740-1811, artist.
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16650721