- Title:
- John Dryden
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- This portrait complements a number of first editions of poems and plays by John Dryden (1631-1700), as well as the Essex House Press edition of Alexander's Feast (1904), printed on vellum, in Senate House Library. Portrait after John Riley (1646-1691; English)
- Conservation note:
- conserved by Painting Conservation Studio, 2016 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Charles Montague, 1st Earl of Halifax (sale 1739/40); Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0122
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- 18th century English school
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1700-1800
- Person's nationality:
- English
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/2605e4b0-3eb8-36b7-88d5-668a33b90efa
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/2605e4b0-3eb8-36b7-88d5-668a33b90efa, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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