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John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain, Edmund Halley, 1722
- Title:
Edmund Halley
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres
- Date:
- 1722
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 3/8 × 10 5/16 inches (36.5 × 26.2 cm), Plate: 13 15/16 × 9 15/16 inches (35.4 × 25.2 cm), Image: 12 1/8 × 9 7/8 inches (30.8 × 25.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "Vol.3 P.155"
Lettered, lower left: "T.Muray pinx.1712"; lettered, lower center: "Edmundus Halleius. | Astronomus Regius et Geometriae Professor Savilianus. | Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill."; lettered, lower right: "John Faber Fecit 1722"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.9978
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:25776
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Circa 1701 : Printed Portraits from the Time of Elihu Yale (Yale University Art Gallery, 2000-12-19 - 2001-04-01) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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