George Berkeley. Line engraving, ca. 1759-1760.

Date:
[1759?-1760?]
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662615i
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Shows Berkeley before he became a bishop, i.e. before 1734. Though Houghton et al. suggest it is based on the Lambeth Palace portrait, the present drawing shows Berkeley in lay dress while in the Lambeth portrait he wears clerical garb

Publication/Creation

[1759?-1760?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 15.6 x 11.4 cm

Lettering

The Revd. Dr George Berkeley.

References note

Not in: R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973
David Berman, 'George Berkeley (1685-1753): pictures by Goldsmith, Yeats and Luce', Hermathena 1985
Raymond W. Houghton, David Berman, and Maureen T. Lapan, Images of Berkeley, Dublin 1986, no. 60 ("Weekly magazine engraving, 1759-1760. Engraver unknown. Not in listed in Luce. ... This engraving appeared with the original printing in the memoir by Goldsmith [The British Plutarch (1762)]. Goldsmith's uncle had been dean of Cloyne when Berkeley was Bishop. It is possibly based on the Lambeth Palace portrait No. 47). The only extant copy of the engraving would seem to be in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California")

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Wellcome Collection 662615i

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