[Francis Le Piper.] Monsieur L' Piper.
Closterman pinx Luttrell sc. Beckett excud [c.1690]. Mezzotint, scarce; sheet 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). False margins added on album page. Francis Le Piper (d.1695), artist whose only surviving works are a series of iillustrations to Samuel Butler's 'Hudibras' (divided between Tate and Rye Art Gallery) and a group of drawings in the British Museum. According to Buckeridge (whose memoir is the source of all biographical information about the artist), Le Piper's travels took him as far as Egypt. This portrait, published by Isaac Beckett (for whom Le Piper worked at one point), is the only known likeness of Le Piper. No in CS; but Russell (13a)
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