Item 27: A Mezzotint of John Wilkes by Franz Heissig, [1770]
Item — Box: 6, Folder: 27
Dates
- Created: [1770]
Creator
- Heissig, Franz, active 1770- (Person)
Access:
All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.
Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Mezzotint
Condition Note:
Good.
Measurements:
11 ¾ in. x 7 ¾ in.
Title:
John Wilkes.
Description:
The following item depicts an engraving of John Wilkes, by Franz Heissig, circa 1770. The image depicts a portrait of Wilkes, whole-length seated directed to left, looking away to right, wearing fur-trimmed robe and a simple chain, gesturing outwards with right hand, left hand holding scroll labelled 'Magna Charta', leaning to right with left elbow on a table littered with papers and an inkstand.
The date for the item has been ascertained in comparison with a similar item digitized on the British Museum’s website. They have a different print of this engraving, but the curator’s comments state: “This appears to be a copy in the same direction of a mezzotint by John Dixon dated 1768. There is a reduced version in the same direction published by Carington Bowles in 1768 and a large mezzotint copy in reverse by Franz Heissig, dated 1770.”
Transcription:
John Wilkes
Frans Hessig Cath. Sculp. et excud. Aug. Jind.
No. 37 [Sculp./ Engraved/Engraver]
Creator
- Heissig, Franz, active 1770- (Person)
Repository Details
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570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu