George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly: P.15007-R

Current Location: In storage

Titles

George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Green, Valentine
Publisher: Boydell, John
Painter: Dyck, Anthony van (After)

Entities

Description

After the painting by Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), (c.1650, Buccleuch Collection [the published state of the print locates the painting '... in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Montagu']). Full-length portrait of George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly, Royalist supporter of Charles I who was beheaded by Parliamentarians at Edinburgh in 1649, standing facing front, his left knee turned towards the right, his right hand holding a long walking cane and his left hand held behind his back. He wears embroidered breeches, boots with fixed spurs and a short doublet with slashed sleeves and broad lace collar beneath a cuirass with flamboyant sash. A helmet is seen on a table behind to the left and a classical column and curtain to centre and right.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay, 1912

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Dating

18th Century#
Production date: AD 1775

Note

Mezzotint printed in black ink. Proof before all letters. Inscription space uncleaned. Narrow margins. The print was published by John Boydell on April 15th 1775. Inscribed in graphite in the margin: 'George Gordon Marquess of Huntly'. Inscribed in graphite in margins at lower left: 'Van Dyck' and lower right: 'Val Green W. 51 [Whitman] J.C.S. [John Chaloner Smith] 72.I'. Inscribed in graphite on the verso: 'CBM'. See BM P,2.278 for an impression of the fully-lettered, published state of the print.