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Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834, British, Humphry Repton, Esq, 1820
- Title:
- Humphry Repton, Esq.
- Additional Title(s):
Humphrey Repton, Esq.
Humphery Repton, Esq.- Date:
- 1820
- Materials & Techniques:
- Stipple engraving, etching, and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper; page in book
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 6 9/16 × 3 3/4 inches (16.6 × 9.6 cm), Image: 1 15/16 × 1 5/8 inches (4.9 × 4.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "2"; on back, lower right: "11- | 25A"
Lettered in black ink, center right: "Cooke sc."; lower center: "HUMPHREY REPTON, ESQ. | THIS ingenious artist, who has acquired high celebrity as an architect and landscape gardener, was born in 1752, at Bury St. Edmund's." Additional text follows from front to back page.
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.12530
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- artist | biography | book | gardener | illustration | man | novel | portrait
- Associated People:
- Repton, Humphry (1752–1818), landscape gardener
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:49047
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