Jacob Houbraken | Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title: Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper

Series/Portfolio: Thomas Birch, The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain

Engraver: Jacob Houbraken (Dutch, Dordrecht 1698–1780 Amsterdam)

Artist: After Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari) (Italian, Sant'Angelo in Vado 1540/42–1609 Ancona)

Publisher: J. and P. Knapton (British, active 1735–89)

Author: Related to work by Thomas Birch (British, 1705–1766)

Sitter: Portrait identified as representing Sir Nicholas Bacon (British, Suffolk 1510–1579 London)

Sitter: Actually a portrait of Thomas Wilson (British, ca. 1525–1581)

Date: 1738

Medium: Etching and engraving

Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed to plate): 14 1/4 × 8 9/16 in. (36.2 × 21.8 cm)

Classification: Prints

Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

Accession Number: 51.501.3269

Signature: in plate: "J. Houbraken sculps. Amst:"; "Frederico Zucchero pinx."

Inscription: in plate: "In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Bedford"; "Impensis J. & P. Knapton Londini 1738"

Princes of Liechtenstein; Vendor: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. (Agent: Gustav Mayer)

Ver Huell 103.16

Alexander Willem Carel Maurits Ver Huell Jacobus Houbraken et son oeuvre. Arnhem, 1875, (under Birch's Heads), cat. no. 16, p. 103.

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