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Sir William Temple

Print
1679 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Pieter Van Der Banck (engraver)
Sir Peter Lely (artist)
Place of origin
England (printed)

Print, portrait of a man, head and shoulders, looking half left, within an oval border of laurel leaves, upon a plinth.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleSir William Temple (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Sir William Temple, engraving by Pieter van der Banck after Peter Lely, 1679.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a man, head and shoulders, looking half left, within an oval border of laurel leaves, upon a plinth.
Dimensions
  • Height: 34.3cm
  • Width: 25.1cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
Style
English School
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'P. Lely Pinxit P. Vandrebanc Sculp. / 1679' (Lettered with name of sitter, biographical details etc. in Latin and)
  • 'Exchanged with Mr. Granger for duplicates at Milton near Cambridge July 3. 1770. Wm: Cole.' (Inscribed on the back)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
According to an inscription on the back, this print was exchanged between a Mr. Granger and William Cole in 1770.
Subjects depicted
Diplomat
Author
Sir William Temple
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
  • O'Donoghue, Freeman. British Museum: Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1908-25.
  • Beckett, R. B. Lely. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951. viii, 70 p. ill.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.620-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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