- Title:
- His Excellency Thomas Earl of Strafford
- Additional Title(s):
- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
- Date:
- 1714
- Materials & Techniques:
- Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 24 × 17 1/4 inches (61 × 43.8 cm), Sheet: 15 × 10 11/16 inches (38.1 × 27.1 cm), Image: 13 × 10 3/8 inches (33 × 26.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Watermark: "J Whatman | 1842"
Lettered, lower center: "His Excellency Thomas Earl of Strafford Viscount Wentworth of Wentworth | Woodhouse & Stainborough. Baron Newmarch Oversley and Raby. One of the Lords Justices of great Brittain | & Ireland by Act of Parliament during the Absence of his Majesty as first lord Commissioner of the admiralty | Lieutenant General and Collonelle of his Majestys own Royal Regimentt of Dragoons Ambassador Extraordinary & Pleni | potentiary to the States Generall of y United Provinces as well as for the Congress at Utrecht. One of the Lords of his | Majestys most Honourable privy Council & Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter.&c.1714. | A. Johnston exud."; lettered, lower right: "Geo. Vertue Sculpsit | Sold by R. Hulton of Cornor of Pall Mall St. James's."; lettered, lower left: "G. Kneller Eques pixnit 1714"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.15110
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Associated People:
- Wentworth, Thomas, first earl of Strafford (1672–1739), diplomatist and army officer
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:31867
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