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The Right Honble. Francis Bacon. Verulam and Viscount St.Albans, Lord High Chancellor of England, Obyt 9 April, 1626 Ætat 66.
[Engraved by J.Cooper.] Cornelius Johnston pinxit.
[n.d., c.1700.] Sold by I.Cooper in James Street Covent Garden.
Very scarce mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Backed onto album paper at corners. Thread margins.
Portrait of Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, 1st Baron Verulam, PC (1561 - 1626), English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued the importance of natural philosophy, guided by scientific method, and his works remained influential throughout the Scientific Revolution.
CS 1: i of ii. Russell i of iii. CS says one known in this state. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65518] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Engraved by J.Cooper.] Cornelius Johnston pinxit.
[n.d., c.1700.] Sold by I.Cooper in James Street Covent Garden.
Very scarce mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Backed onto album paper at corners. Thread margins.
Portrait of Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, 1st Baron Verulam, PC (1561 - 1626), English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued the importance of natural philosophy, guided by scientific method, and his works remained influential throughout the Scientific Revolution.
CS 1: i of ii. Russell i of iii. CS says one known in this state. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65518] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
A Section of the Quadrangle design'd for the British Musæum, or Public Repository. including the Royal Society, Antiquarian Society, and a Royal Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Corn.s Johnston Inv.t.
[London: Cornelius Johnston, 1754.]
Scarce engraving. 380 x 760mm (15 x 30¾"), with large margins. Crease in centre as normal. Repaired tears.
An architectural orthogonal elevation of the interior facade of the proposed building, facing into the courtyard, with cut-away views through the two side wings. Johnston, of whom nothing in known, published this print in an attempt to win the contract for the construction of a new national museum. Instead the commissioners decide to convert Montague House. It was published as a pair to 'A Design for the British Musæum, or, Public Repository and Cottonian Library, being on Front of a Quadrangle, in which may be included, the Royal Society, Antiquarian Society, and a Royal Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, with proper Receptacles for such future Libraries, Natural and Artificial Curiosities, as may be hereafter left'. In January 1759 the Museum opened to the public at Montague House, London.
[Ref: 61429] £580.00
Corn.s Johnston Inv.t.
[London: Cornelius Johnston, 1754.]
Scarce engraving. 380 x 760mm (15 x 30¾"), with large margins. Crease in centre as normal. Repaired tears.
An architectural orthogonal elevation of the interior facade of the proposed building, facing into the courtyard, with cut-away views through the two side wings. Johnston, of whom nothing in known, published this print in an attempt to win the contract for the construction of a new national museum. Instead the commissioners decide to convert Montague House. It was published as a pair to 'A Design for the British Musæum, or, Public Repository and Cottonian Library, being on Front of a Quadrangle, in which may be included, the Royal Society, Antiquarian Society, and a Royal Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, with proper Receptacles for such future Libraries, Natural and Artificial Curiosities, as may be hereafter left'. In January 1759 the Museum opened to the public at Montague House, London.
[Ref: 61429] £580.00