- Title:
- Edmund Spenser
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- This picture of poet Edmund Spenser (ca 1522-1599) complements first editions and sumptuous private press editions of his work in Senate House Library, given, like the portrait, by Sir Louis Sterling.
- 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: Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd Earl of Oxford; 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-0106
- 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/9feb9d02-048e-330e-83a3-aca8d1d15a28
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/9feb9d02-048e-330e-83a3-aca8d1d15a28, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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