FDA-E.198-2014
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.198-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
Charles Spencer, Duke of Marlborough
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
3rd state
Other number
STO 182
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 330mm
width (actual size): 225mm
width (actual size): 225mm
Inscription
Lettered 'His Grace Charles Spencer, Duke of Marlborough, Master General of the Ordnance, General in Chief of His Majesty's Foot FOrces, Kinght of y most Noble Order of the Garter, & one of his Maj. most hon. Privy Council &c.
Done from a Picture in the Possession of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Pemborke; to whom this Plate is most humbly Inscribed by His most Dutiful and Obedient Servant Rich. Houston.'
Done from a Picture in the Possession of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Pemborke; to whom this Plate is most humbly Inscribed by His most Dutiful and Obedient Servant Rich. Houston.'
Physical description
Cut to size
Production
Person
Houston, Richard, 1721 - 1775 (Engraver)
Reynolds, Joshua (Sir), 1723 - 1792 (Source artist)
Houston, Richard, 1721 - 1775 (Publisher)
Reynolds, Joshua (Sir), 1723 - 1792 (Source artist)
Houston, Richard, 1721 - 1775 (Publisher)
Date
18th century
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Hamilton, E., A Catalogue Raisonne of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., from 1755 to 1822, London: P&D Colnaghi and Co., 1884 (p. 51)
