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Benjamin Bradley

Print
22/04/1737 (published)
Artist/Maker
John Faber (engraver)
Arthur Pond (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (published)

Print, portrait of a man, three-quarter-length, seated beside a table, holding a pipe in his right hand. Beneath, within a cartouche are a soldier and a gentleman, looking at a lady and a lion both smoking pipes.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleBenjamin Bradley (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Mezzotint
Mezzotint
Brief description
Print, portrait of Benjamin Bradley, opponent of Walpole's excise bill, mezzotint by John Faber II, 1737
Physical description
Print, portrait of a man, three-quarter-length, seated beside a table, holding a pipe in his right hand. Beneath, within a cartouche are a soldier and a gentleman, looking at a lady and a lion both smoking pipes.
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.125in
  • Width: 9.875in
Dimensions take 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
British School
Marks and inscriptions
'Behold the Man, who, when a gloomy Band Of vile Excisemen... Heave to thy Stopper and compleat thy Bliss/ The Best in Christendom without Excise,/ Bradly's best Virginia/ Arth. Pond Pinx. J. Faber. fe. Published the 22. of April. 1737.' (Lettered with 8 lines of verse and on a sheet of paper on the table)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Subject depicted
Bradley, Benjamin
Bibliographic references
  • Smith, John Chaloner. British Mezzotinto Portraits. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.4917-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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