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Jacobus Houbraken (1698-1780)
HENRY PRINCE OF WALES SON OF K JAMES I 1738
Engraving | 36.8 x 22.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 601452
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Engraving of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. Bust length with closed ruff, armour, and George on a ribbon around neck. Within an oval border bearing English inscription and with a gorgon's head, below, a cartouche containing a scene of a joust and ornaments of armour and weapons. Cut down. Plate from Thomas Birch's The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain (1743-52). For the production of Birch's volume, the portraits were engraved by Jacobus Houbraken, while Hubert-François Gravelot engraved the decorative ornaments throughout.
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36.8 x 22.8 cm (sheet of paper)
35.8 x 21.2 cm (image)
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