FDA-E.1337-2014
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.1337-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
The Honourable David Hume
Title Type
assigned by artist
Other number
SW 146
Description
Content (person)
Hume, David, 1711 - 1776 (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 500mm
width (actual size): 351mm
width (actual size): 351mm
Inscription
Lettered with title and 'One of the Barons of His Majesty's Exchequer & late Professor of Scots Law, in the University of Edinburgh, &c. &c. &c. From a Picture painted for the Writers to His Majesty's Signet to whom this Print is respectfully dedicated by their most obt. & obliged Servant David Hatton.'
Inscription description
Stamped with collector's mark 'GWS'
Production
Person
Raeburn, Henry (Sir), 1756 - 1823 (Source artist)
Turner, Charles, 1774 - 1857 (Engraver)
Hatton, David (Publisher)
Turner, Charles, 1774 - 1857 (Engraver)
Hatton, David (Publisher)
Date
17/03/1823
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of George Warren Swire (1883-1949); by whom bequeathed to Eton College
Previous ownership
References
• O'Donoghue, F., Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Vol.II, The British Museum, 1912 (p. 585)
