Alexander Bannermann - 1784 Engraving Sir Francis Bacon

Description

Alexander Bannermann - Original 1784 Engraving. Signed in plate. On laid. Condition is typical for a picture of this age including some discolouration around edges and corners.

Bannermann was born in Cambridge about 1730. He engraved some plates for Alderman Boydell, ‘Joseph interpreting Pharaoh's Dream,’ after Ribera; the ‘Death of St. Joseph,’ after Velasquez; and ‘Dancing Children,’ after Le Maire. For Walpole's ‘Anecdotes of Painters’ he also engraved several portraits. In 1766 he was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists; in 1770 he is known to have been living in Cambridge. In Nagler's dictionary (ed. 1878) is a long list of his works; there are good specimens in the print room of the British Museum.

Size

30.5 x 20cm (12" x 7.9")
Sheet: 42.2 x 24.4cm (16.6" x 9.6")
Plate: 30.5 x 20cm (12" x 7.9")

Collection Information

Part of a collection of engravings from Harrison's Edition of Rapin's History of England, by Paul Rapin de Thoyras.

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