Ashbourne portrait [graphic].
1612
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPs1
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Title
Ashbourne portrait [graphic].
Created/published
1612, with nineteenth-century alterations.
Description
1 painting on canvas : oil ; 119.4 x 95 cm
Associated name
Kingston, Clement Usill, Rev., former owner.
Levine, R., former owner.
Conway, Eustace, former owner.
Harvard, Mr., former owner.
Levine, R., former owner.
Conway, Eustace, former owner.
Harvard, Mr., former owner.
Material base
canvas
Note
Inscribed at upper left: "AeTATIS SVAE. 47 / Ao: 1612 [later changed to 1611]".
Versions: A copy, made from the mezzotint and inexact as to color, was reproduced in Spielmann's article of 1910 as in the possession of C. E. Graseman. Another copy, with an arched top, was owned by Charles Benck of Yonkers, N.Y., in 1977.
Title from Pressly.
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
Versions: A copy, made from the mezzotint and inexact as to color, was reproduced in Spielmann's article of 1910 as in the possession of C. E. Graseman. Another copy, with an arched top, was owned by Charles Benck of Yonkers, N.Y., in 1977.
Title from Pressly.
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
Publications about material
Engravings: G. F. Storm, 15 December 1847 (its three states are listed in Spielmann's article of May 1910, p. 42); wood engraving by Ebenezer Landells in the Lady's Newspaper, 6 August 1848, p. 117; steel engraving, unsigned and undated (all three prints are reproduced by Spielmann)
Condition
(See Pressly Catalogue, p. 300-1: cleaned, tears repaired; losses in-filled; some overpaint removed. Painting retains traces of its full history in that it was not completely restored, e.g. neutral re-touching in areas of paint loss in date and coat of arms)
Provenance
Provenance: Bought before March 1847 in the London art market by Rev. Clement Usill Kingston of Ashbourne, Derbyshire; sold by Kingston to a Mr. Harvard of Attleborough for £80; at the latter's death (sometime before 1910) it was purchased by R. Levine of Norwich; sold by Levine's executors, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Auctioneers, Wellington St., Strand, London [1902]; 34-35 New Bond St., London [1928], 18-21 (20) June 1928, lot 568, repr., bought by Eustace Conway; Anderson Galleries, American Art Association, 16 December 1929, lot 36 (offered for sale by Conway but bought back in at $4,400)
Source of acquisition
Bought by Mrs. Folger from Conway, March 1931, $3,500, Scheuer acting as agent for Conway.
Exhibited
Exhibited: 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb. 15, 1994.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 165 (Plate 25)
Linked resources
Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPs1
Analytical report on the scientific examination of the Ashbourne Portrait, October 11, 2002.
Analytical report on the scientific examination of the Ashbourne Portrait, October 11, 2002.
Genre/form
Portrait paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPs1