Portrait of Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
Date
1817
Sitter
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (1730 - 1799, British) , Clergyman
Creator
R Cooper, Printmaker
Creator - Organisation
William Clarke, Publisher
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 229mm
width (print): 154mm
width (print): 154mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode seated in three-quarter profile to the left as viewed and set in the corner of a room with desk and books. He wears short wig and collarless coat.
Inscribed ‘Engraved by R. Cooper. Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode. M.A. Published Augt. 1st. 1817. By W. Clarke. New Bond Street’ and pencilled ‘1785’.
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (1730-1799) was a British clergyman, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1785.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.13.
Inscribed ‘Engraved by R. Cooper. Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode. M.A. Published Augt. 1st. 1817. By W. Clarke. New Bond Street’ and pencilled ‘1785’.
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (1730-1799) was a British clergyman, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1785.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.13.
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