Lord Somers 1650-1716, 1745

  • Jacob Houbraken, Dutch, 1698-1780
  • Godfrey Kneller, English, 1646-1723

Engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 14 × 8 5/8 inches (35.6 × 21.9 cm) Sheet: 14 3/8 × 8 7/8 inches (36.5 × 22.5 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S623

Signed and dated, in plate, below image, lower right: J. Houbraken sculps. Amst. 1745.

Inscribed, in plate, left edge of portrait medallion: JOHN LORD SOMERS. Inscribed, below plate, lower left: G. Kneller pinxit. Inscribed, lower center: In the Collection of James Cocks Esqr. Inscribed, lower right: Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini-

November 1886, Leavitt sale. Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Jacob Houbraken; after Godfrey Kneller, Lord Somers 1650-1716, 1745, engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S623.