Ricardus.Walker.S.T.P. Hort.Botan.Cantabr. Fundator Portrait of Richard Walker
Printmaker:
Lamborn, Peter Spendelowe
Painter:
Heins, Dirck (John Theodore, Sr.)
(After)
Etching on laid paper. Portrait of Richard Walker, half-length, in an oval, turned slightly towards the left, dressed in an academic gown with bands at his neck and a periwig on his head. The head and background worked up in fine detail, the robes on the body unfinished. Scratched onto the plate at lower left: 'Heins pinx' and at lower right: 'PSLamborn fec'. Engraved in open letters in the lower margin: 'RICARDUS.WALKER.S.T.P. / HORT.BOTAN.CANTABR. / FUNDATOR.'. The etching was published as the frontispiece to Walker's 'Catalogus horti botanici Cantabrigiensis' (1771) (See Botanic Gardens, Cory Library), a catalogue of plants grown in Cambridge University's first Botanic Garden, which was originally located in north-west Cambridge and known as the 'Walkerian' Botanic Garden after Walker, Vice-Master of Trinity College, who had purchased the land and gifted it to the University for this purpose.
Unknown
by unknown
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1771
Height 150mm (cut to platemark) x width 109mm (cut to platemark)
Accession number: P.14859-R
Primary reference Number: 225469
O'Donaghue: 1
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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