The Hon. Charles Cecil

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Artist/Maker	Lens, Bernard (II) (engraver) Cooper, Edward (publisher) Van Der Vaardt, Jan (Van Der Vaart) (artist)
Place of origin	London (published)

Portrait, when a child, seated in a landscape with a lamb. The sitter is shown full-length, facing slightly right with body turned slightly to left, in the character of a shepherd.

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Categories	Children & Childhood Prints Portraits
Object type	Print
Title	The Hon. Charles Cecil (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Mezzotint Mezzotint
Brief description	Print, portrait of Charles Cecil as a shepherd in a landscape. Mezzotint by Bernard Lens, II, after Jan van der Vaardt, 1680-1725.
Physical description	Portrait, when a child, seated in a landscape with a lamb. The sitter is shown full-length, facing slightly right with body turned slightly to left, in the character of a shepherd.
Dimensions	Height: 34cm Width: 25.1cm Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959. London: HMSO, 1964.
Styles	British School Baroque
Copy number	2nd state
Marks and inscriptions	'Vandervaart Pinxit B Lens fecit Cum Privilegio Regis Sold by E: Cooper at the 3 Pidgeons in Bedford Street.' (Lettered with name of sitter and)
Credit line	Given by Mrs E. B. Westwood
Subjects depicted	Shepherd Lamb Landscape Child Cecil, Charles
Bibliographic references	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 . London: HMSO, 1964. Smith, John Chaloner. British Mezzotinto Portraits. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.434-1959

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O568697/the-hon-charles-cecil-print-lens-bernard-ii/

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