FDA-E.1297-2014
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.1297-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
Sir Harbord Harbord Bart.
Title Type
assigned by artist
Other number
SW 21
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 647mm
width (actual size): 397mm
width (actual size): 397mm
Inscription
Lettered 'Sir Harbord Harbord Bart, Many years one of the Representatives for the City of Norwich. Engraved at the request of many of his constituents from a portrait placed by them in their Public Hall, on grateful testimony of his uninfluenced conduct in Parliament and assiduous attention to the Public & commercial interests of that city.'
Inscription description
Stamped with collector's mark 'GWS'
Production
Person
Date
18th century
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 III, London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883 (p. 1271)
