Sir Robert Walpole
date: label: date made
content: 1788
name: label: graphic artist
content: Watson, James
label: original artist
content: Van Loo, Jean-Baptiste
label: publisher
content: Boydell, John
label: publisher
content: Boydell, Josiah
label: maker
content: Boydell, John
label: maker
content: Boydell, Josiah
notes: label: Description
content: Mezzotint, trimmed, after portrait by J. B. Van Loo, once in the Blue Damask Bedroom at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2. This was the volume's frontispiece. SI Secretary's Library stamp embossed in lower margin.
label: Description
content: Walpole, Earl of Orford and the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, built Houghton Hall where the paintings reproduced for the two-volume work, The Houghton Gallery, were displayed before their sale to Catherine the Great of Russia in 1779.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Government
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Marsh Collection
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Marsh Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0534.03.01
label: accession number
content: 1978.0534
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0534.03.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: mezzotint
label: Object Type
content: Mezzotint
label: Other Terms
content: Print; Intaglio; Mezzotint
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: plate: 50.5 cm x 35.25 cm; 19 7/8 in x 13 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 51.75 cm x 37.25 cm; 20 3/8 in x 14 21/32 in