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Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, 1769
- Title:
- Lord Archbishop of Canterbury
- Additional Title(s):
- Lord Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres
- Date:
- 1769
- Materials & Techniques:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 1/4 × 11 3/16 inches (38.7 × 28.4 cm), Plate: 15 × 10 7/8 inches (38.1 × 27.6 cm), Image: 13 3/4 × 10 7/8 inches (34.9 × 27.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "Vol.2' 80"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left: "Frederick Cornwallis Bp of Litchfield 1749 Ahp of Canterbury 1768"
Lettered, lower left: "Nath: Dance pinxt."; lettered, lower right: "Edw:Fisher sculpt. | Price 5 Sh:"; lettered, lower center: "the Honble & Most Reverend Father in GOD, Frederick, by divine Providence, | Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan & c. 1768, AEtat 55."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.9867
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- archbishop | bands | books | curtain | man | portrait | religious and mythological subject | tippet | wig
- Associated People:
- Cornwallis, Frederick (1713–1783), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:25529
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