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Ricardus.Walker.S.T.P. Hort.Botan.Cantabr. Fundator: P.14859-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Ricardus.Walker.S.T.P. Hort.Botan.Cantabr. Fundator
Portrait of Richard Walker

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lamborn, Peter Spendelowe
Painter: Heins, Dirck (John Theodore, Sr.) (After)

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Description

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.

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Unknown

Acquisition and important dates

by unknown

Dating

18th Century
Production date: AD 1771

Note

Height 150mm (cut to platemark) x width 109mm (cut to platemark)

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14859-R
Primary reference Number: 225469
O'Donaghue: 1
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Audit data

Created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 Updated: Monday 7 January 2019 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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