FDA-E.1308-2014
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.1308-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
The Right Honourable Earl Howe
Title Type
assigned by artist
Comments
Only state
Other number
SW 136
Description
Content (person)
Howe, Richard Howe, 1726 - 1799 (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 505mm
width (actual size): 352mm
width (actual size): 352mm
Inscription
Inscribed on back in pencil '2698-uc/-/-'
Inscription description
Stamped with collector's mark 'GWS'
Production
Person
Dunkarton, Robert, c.1744 - c.1811 (Engraver)
Copley, John Singleton, 1738 - 1815 (Source artist)
Copley, John Singleton, 1738 - 1815 (Publisher)
Copley, John Singleton, 1738 - 1815 (Source artist)
Copley, John Singleton, 1738 - 1815 (Publisher)
Date
10/09/1794
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. 229)
