W. Cooper pinx. Ger:VanderGucht sculp.
[n.d., 1728.]
Engraving. Sheet 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper.
Portrait of Major John Bernardi (1657-1736), English soldier and Jacobite who spent 40 years in Newgate Prison, without proper trial, for his involvement in an assassination plot against William III, dying there aged nearly eighty. This portrait comes from his autobiography, 'A Short History of the Life of Major Bernardi by Himself', in which he describes marrying in Newgate in 1712 (aged 68) and fathering ten children while imprisoned.
Sharpe 315 I of II.
[Ref: 59862] £130.00
[n.d., 1728.]
Engraving. Sheet 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper.
Portrait of Major John Bernardi (1657-1736), English soldier and Jacobite who spent 40 years in Newgate Prison, without proper trial, for his involvement in an assassination plot against William III, dying there aged nearly eighty. This portrait comes from his autobiography, 'A Short History of the Life of Major Bernardi by Himself', in which he describes marrying in Newgate in 1712 (aged 68) and fathering ten children while imprisoned.
Sharpe 315 I of II.
[Ref: 59862] £130.00