The Biographical Mirrour, Ancient and Modern English Portraits (1798)

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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.

TALBOT, DUKE OF TYRCONNEL

From an Original Picture in the
Collection of Lord Beaulieu at Ditton Park

MARIE de DUCHESS de CHEVREUSE

From a Scarce Print

$15

DAVID GARRICK
in the Character of Richard III

From an Original Picture in the Collection of the Earl of Clarendon, at the Grove, Herts.

$25

HENRY FITZROY
DUKE OF RICHMOND

From an Miniature Picture in the
Collection of the Earl of Orford, Strawberry Hill

$15

CATHARINE HYDE
DUCHESS OF QUEENSBURY

From an Original Picture in the Collection of the Earl of Clarendon, at the Grove, Herts.

$15

JOHN OLDHAM

From an Original Picture by Dobson in the Collection of the Right Hon. the Earl of Orford, at Strawberry Hill

ELIZABETH BARRY

From an Original Picture by Sir Godfrey Kneller in the Collection of the Right Hon. the Earl of Orford, at Strawberry Hill

$15

JOSIAH TUCKER, DD
DEAN OF GLOUCESTER

— fatis aperit Cassandra futuris Ora, Dei jussu, non unquam credita Teucris (Virgil)

$15

SIR HENRY NEVILLE

From an Original Picture in the Collection of Richard Aldworh Neville Esq.

RICHARD COX
BISHOP OF ELY

From an Original Picture in Trinity Hall, Cambridge

DR RICHARD KIDDER
BISHOP OF BATH & WELLS.

From a Picture by Mrs. Beal, in the Gallery at Emanuel College, Cambridge

$15

HUMP LLOYD

$15

DR SAMUEL OGDEN

From a Drawing in Crayons by C. Sharp of Cambridge, after the Original by F Vander Myn

$15

SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS, KNIGHT OF THE BATH

From an Original Miniature of the same size in the Collection of Viscount Malden

$15

COL. LUNDSFORD

From an Original Portrait in the Collection of Richard Aldworth Neveill Esq.

$15

ARABELLA CHURCHILL

From a Picture at Strawberry Hill

SIR EDMUND TURNOR
OF STOKE ROCHFORD CO: LINCOLN KNT.

$15

SIR CHRISTOPHER TURNOR KNT.

A Baron of the Exchequer 1660, Ob. 1675.
From the Original Picture in Guildhall

$15

THE LADY CHARLOTTE DE LE TREMOVILLE, COUNTESS OF DERBY

From an Original Picture in the Collection of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Orford, at Strawberry Hill

$10

RICHARD RAWLINSON, D.C.L.

From an Original Picture in the Bodleian Gallery, Oxford

$15

SIR HENRY WOTTON

From an Original Picture in the Bodleian Gallery, Oxford

$15

SIR WILLIAM WOOD

"To his Grace the Duke of Leeds President, & the TOXOPHILITE Society of London, This Portrait of Sir William Wood, a Celebrated Archer of the last Century, from an Original Picture in the Possession of that Society, is Respectfully Inscribed by his Grace's, & their Obediant Humble Servants, S. & E. Harding

$25

MICHAEL DRAYTON

From an Original Picture in Dulwich College

$15

STEPHEN GARDINER
BISHOP OF WINCHESTER

$15

WILLIAM SHENSTON ESQ.

From an Original Picture in the possession of W.G. Waldron

$15

SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON KNT.
LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND

From a Picture in the Collection of the Rev. R. Masters of Land Beach, Cambridgeshire

CHARLES THE FIRST

From a Picture at Lambeth

COL. RICHARD LOVELACE

From an Original Picture in Dulwich College

$15

HENRY JERMYN
EARL OF ST. ALBANS

From an Original by Sir Peter Lily, in the possession of the Late George Drummond Esq at Stanmore

The Right Reverend
THOMAS PERCY, D.D.
Lord Bishop of Dromore

MICHAELL MOHUN

From an Original Picture in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Dorset

$15

SIR RICHARD FANSHAW KNT

From an Original Picture of him by Sir Peter Lily, in the Possession of a Gentleman

$15

SIDNEY GODOLPHIN

From an Drawing in the Possion of the Earl of Orford, taken from a Painting than [sic] in the Hands of the Earl of Godolphin Lord High Treasurer of England

$15