Dr. Leland.
[engraving based on original painted by A. Lee] ; J. Chapman sculp.
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| Summary: | Title printed under image. John Leland, D.D., (1691-1766), dissenting [Presbyterian] minister at Dublin; head and shoulders, to right, looking to front, in wig, gown and bands within an oval. Underneath (present within small rectangular frame) is a whole-length of John Leland standing in a church - on the table (written across the pages of an open volume are "Bolingbrokes Letters" while Leland rests his right hand on a volume entitled "View of the Deist Writ"; he points with his left hand to a copy of a volume entitled "Holy Bible" depicted in the background, in front of a library of other volumes. Leland was the author of the two volumes study (1754–1755), "A view of the principal deistical writers that have appeared in England in the last and present century: with observations upon them, and some account of the answers that have been published against them: in several letters to a friend". |
| Format: | Prints & Drawings |
| Language: | English |
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London :
G. Jones,
March 1, 1813.
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| Notes: | One of two impressions. See EP LELA-JO (1A) I for details of other impression. Physical description: 1 print : stipple and line ; oval image 10.10 x 8.8 cm., rectangle image 3 x 4.4 cm., within plate mark 17.5 x 11 cm., on sheet 28.5 x 22.2 cm. Citations/References: Catalogue of Engraved Irish Portraits and Original Drawings / Rosalind M. Elmes. - Dublin [1938], p. 115. more |
| Credits: | Attributed to John Chapman (fl. 1792-1823), from an original painting by Anthony Lee (1735-1767). |
As a digital copy of this item is available, the original will not be issued.
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