FDA-E.1289-2014
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.1289-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
The Duke of Buccleuch
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
1st state
Other number
SW 36
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 451mm
width (actual size): 328mm
width (actual size): 328mm
Inscription
Inscribed 'Le Duke de Bouckleau'
Inscription description
Stamped with collector's mark 'GWS' on the front, and with collector's mark (?) of a circle with the head of a a deer/cow within
Production
Person
Dixon, John, c.1740 - 1811 (Engraver)
Gainsborough, Thomas (R. A.), 1727 - 1788 (Source artist)
Boydell, John, 1719 - 1804 (Publisher)
Gainsborough, Thomas (R. A.), 1727 - 1788 (Source artist)
Boydell, John, 1719 - 1804 (Publisher)
Date
11/06/1771
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of George Warren Swire (1883-1949); by whom bequeathed to Eton College
Previous ownership
References
• Smith, J.C., British Mezzotinto Portraits, Part I, London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883 (p. 207)
