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The Biographical Mirrour, comprising a series of
Ancient and Modern Potraits of
Eminent and Distinguished Persons, from
Original Pictures and Drawings:
with some account of their lives and works.
London: Printed for Silvester Harding, et. al.
(1798 [as stated on title page], some prints dated as late as 1810)
Original Etchings and Engravings over 200 years old
on woven paper with crown or Whatman watermark (some watermarks as late as 1810)
Sheet size: approx. 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches, though some are irregular
NOTE: THE PAPER, WHICH IS OVER 200 YEARS OLD, IS IN GENERALLY VERY GOOD CONDITION. THERE MAY BE SOME SIGNS OF AGE SUCH AS FOX MARKS OR AGE TONING. PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT THE PROVIDED ENLARGEMENTS TO ASSESS THE CONDITION OF EACH PRINT.
SIR DUDLEY DIGGS
From an Original Picture by Cornelius Jansen, in the Possession of Thomas Dowdeswell Esq.
$15
THOMAS STANLEY
FIRST EARL OF DERBY
From an Original Picture in the Collection of the Earl of Derby, at Knowsley, Lancashire
$15
EDWARD STANLEY
EARL OF DERBY
From an Original Picture in the Collection of the Earl of Derby, at Knowsley, Lancashire
$15
DAVID ERSKINE ESQ.
From an Original Picture
$15
FABIAN PHILIPS
From a Miniature
$15
LADY HENRIETTA BERKELEY
From an Original Picture by Sir Godfrey Kneller, at Strawberry Hill
$15
ROBERT NIXON,
THE CHESHIRE PROPHET
From an Original Picture in the Possession of Owen Salisbury Breveton Esq.
$15
LORD HOPTON
From a Drawing in the collection of R. S. Tighe Esq.
$15
SIR ANTHONY BROWNE Kt.
From an Original Picture
$20
SIR JOHN FASTOLFE
From the Oxford Almanack for the year 1731
$20
RICHARD BUTCHER ANTIQUARIAN
$20
RICHARD TARLTON
From a drawing of the same size in the Possession Library at Magdalen College Camb
$20
LADY BLOUNT
WIDOW OF SIR WILLIAM MAINWARING
From the Original in the Possession of the Rev. George Lefroy of Ash in Hampshire
$10
SIR WILLIAM MAINWARING KT.
From the Original in the Possession of the Rev. George Lefroy of Ash in Hampshire
$15
MARY CLARA,
VISCOUNTESS BOLINGBROKE
From a Miniature Picture painted by Lady Malden after the Original in the Collection of Lady Bolingbroke
$15
JOHN HOSKINS
From a Miniature Painted by Himself in the Collection of W. Sotheby Esq.
$15
RICHARD CROMWELL
LORD PROTECTOR
From a Miniature by Cooper in the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Oxford at Strawberry Hill
$25
SIR JOHN GODSALVE KT.
Captum in Castris ad Boloinam 1440
$25
MRS BRACEGIRDLE
$15
MARY BEAUMONT
COUNTESS OF BUCKINGHAM
Wife of Sir Geoge Villiers and Mother of George Duke of Buckinhamshire
From a miniature in the Collection at Strawberry Hill
$20
SIR CHRISTOPHER WRAY KNT.
Lord Chief Justice of England
1582. Aged 59.
From an Original Portrait in the Possession of Sir Cecil Wray, Bart.
$30
JOHN HOLLES 1ST,
EARL OF CLARE
From an Drawing in the Possession of Richard Bull Esq.
$30
SIR JOHN GLANVILE
Speaker to the House of Commons in the Reign of King Charles, ye 1st
From an Original Picture in the Possession of William fletcher Esq. at Oxford
$30
GILBERT SHELDON, ARCH BISHOP OF CANTERBURY
From an Original Picture in the Possession of John Simes
EDWARD ALLEYN
Founder of Dulwich College
From the Original at Dulwich
$30
HOPTON HAYNES ESQ.
From an Original Picture by Highmore in the Possession of the Rev. Dr. Disney
$30
THE HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE LODWICK DUKE OF RICHMOND AND LENOX
$50
JEFFREY HUDSON,
Obit. 1682 at 63
The celebrated Dwarf in the reigns of Charles the 1st and 2nd
From an original picture by Daniel Mytens in the Collection of Sir Ralph Woodford, Bart.
$50
WILLIAM CECIL, LORD BURLEIGH
From an original picture in the Bodleian Gallery, Oxford
$75
SIR JOHN HOTHAM, Bart 1621
Etched from an original drawing in the Pepys collection at Magdalen College Cambridge
