BIB_ID
450512
Accession number
MA 23870
Creator
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, etcher.
Display Date
[London?] : publisher not identified, [between 1730 and 1750]
Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark: 206 x 148 mm; sheet: 210 x 151 mm
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
2nd state, with the addition of the six lines of verse by Richardson Junior.
Lettered below portrait with six lines, beginning: Authentic Homer Light's whole fountain flows / Immense! Feirce dazling yet & torrent glows...", signed "J.R. jun".
2nd state, with the addition of the six lines of verse by Richardson Junior.
Lettered below portrait with six lines, beginning: Authentic Homer Light's whole fountain flows / Immense! Feirce dazling yet & torrent glows...", signed "J.R. jun".
Summary
Portrait of John Milton; bust, head turned towards the right, looking at viewer; with shoulder-length wavy hair; wearing a plain white square collar and a cloak over shoulders; after Faithorne.
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