Engraving
- Title:
- Robert Earl of Holdernesse
- Object Name:
- Engraving
- Object ID:
- 2010.501.0552
- Description:
- Engraving. Portrait of Robert Darcy (1718-1778), Earl of Holderness. Engraved by Robert Cooper. Steel engraving, printed on paper. Bust-length portrait of a middle aged man facing left, body facing slightly right, long whitish hair, possibly a wig, curling on sides with some hanging down back in shadow, dark eyebrows, dark colored coat with 4 buttons, tailored area along edge of coat that isn't real collar, button holes along left side, high vest, 6 buttons, light colored stock and cravat. Some ruffles at right cuff. Fairly dark rectangular background in lighter rectangular frame. Molding on in and outside edges of frame. On front of frame at bottom: "Robert Earl of Holdernesse." Outside frame bottom right is in script: "RobT. Cooper Seu t". "Engraved by R. Cooper, from an original Picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds, / in the PoSseSsion of the Rev. C. Alderson." Below that in italics" "Published Jan. 28. 1811, by Cadell and Davies, Strand."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-8.1 W-5 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- People:
- Holderness, Earl of (1718-1778)
- Subjects:
- Holderness, Earl of
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