Christopher Rawlinson of Cark Hall in Lancashire Esq. Anno Christi 1701. Ætatis Suæ 24.
AGrace pinx: J. Smith fec: [n.d., c.1721.] Fine mezzotint. 325 x 230mm (12¾ x 9"). Laid on album paper at edges. A half-length portrait in oval of antiquary Christopher Rawlinson (1677-1733), wearing wig, gown and cravat. As an antiquarian he devoted himself to Anglo-Saxon studies and in 1688 published (with assistance from Edward Thwaites), the Saxon text of the ‘Consolation of Philosophy’ by Boethius, from a transcript at Oxford made by Francis Junius. CS 210. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
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