Vanity Fair
General Portraits
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Friedrich Roth-Scholtz 1727
Sir Richard Arkwright 1832
Hugh Oldham 1835
Francis Egerton Duke of Bridgewater 1831
Humphrey Chetham 1831
James Brindley Engineer 1832
Bishop William Smyth or Smith 1835
Cardinal Allen 1835
11x18 cm
BISHOP OLDHAM
ENGRAVED BY W. HOLL._FROM THE ORIGINAL IN THE HALL OF CORPUS CHRISTIE COLLEGE OXFORD.
FISHER, SON, & Co. LONDON, 1835.
Steel line and stipple engraving by Steel line and stipple engraving by William Holl the elder (1771-1838). Holl, probably of German descent, is known for his stipple engraved portraits. In the 1820's he was one of the early engravers to use steel plates and was a pioneer in using steel plates for bank notes.
Hugh Oldham (c.1452-1519), English Cleric, Bishop of Exeter and founder and patron of Manchester Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Fine engraving, hand coloured.
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