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Album leaf mounted with 25.62.32r(a): mezzotint portrait of George I by John Smith after Sir Godgrey Kneller and, 25.62.32r(b): drawing by Isaac Ware, Chimney to the Library, Houghton Hall.
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Title: Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with a print and a drawing: (a): Portrait of George I; (b): Chimney to the Library, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation
Engraver:
(a) John Smith (British, Daventry 1652–1743 Northampton)
Artist:
(a) After Sir Godfrey Kneller (German, Lübeck 1646–1723 London)
Publisher:
(a) John Smith (British, Daventry 1652–1743 Northampton)
Artist:
(b) Isaac Ware (British, before 1704–1766 Hampstead)
Date: 1715–35
Medium: (a): mezzotint; (b): pen and black ink, brush and gray wash
Dimensions: Leaf: 28 15/16 × 20 1/2 in. (73.5 × 52 cm)
Classifications: Drawings, Prints
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925
Accession Number: 25.62.32r(a,b)
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