Printing plate
copper plate
Sir John Hawkwood
Object number
LDSAL2022.2.32
Artist/Designer/Maker
Patch, Thomas - Engraver
Dalrymple, David Lord Hailes, 3rd Baronet of Hailes (Sir) - Commissioner
Dalrymple, David Lord Hailes, 3rd Baronet of Hailes (Sir) - Commissioner
Production date
1771
Material
copper
Technique
Etching
Engraving
Engraving
Dimensions
height: 335mm
width: 233mm
width: 233mm
Location
Burlington House -
Content description
Printing plate with the equestrian portrait of Sir John Hawkwood, half-length, in profile to the left, in armour with large pauldrons and a cloak, wearing an embroidered hat, holding a baton of command in one hand and the reins of his horse in the other. In the lower margin is an armorial shield with three escallops upon a chevron. After a painting by Uccello in the Duomo, Florence.
Inscriptions
Inscription content
IOANNES. ACVTVS. EQVES. BRITANNICVS. DVX. AETATIS. SVE.
CAVTISSIMVS. ET. REI. MILITARIS. PERITISSIMVS. HABITVS. EST.
PAVLI. VCCELI. OPVS.
1436
CAVTISSIMVS. ET. REI. MILITARIS. PERITISSIMVS. HABITVS. EST.
PAVLI. VCCELI. OPVS.
1436
Inscription content
SOCIETATI ANTIQ. LONDINI DS. DAVID DALRYMPLE DE HAILES D.D.D. TPatch 1771.
Inscription date
1771
References
Reference (controlled)
Betti, Chiara. “Lost Treasures Resurface: The Untold Story of the Society of Antiquaries’ Printing Plates.” The Antiquaries Journal 104 (2024): 304–42. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581524000179.
Printing plate with the equestrian portrait of Sir John Hawkwood, half-length; signs of repoussage on the reverse.
The plate was donated to the Society by David Dalrymple but was not printed until 1780. On the 29th of January of that year, the Council decided to alter the lettering at the bottom of the plate to the current version. It was also established to print off 500 impressions for the members and for sale at the price of 1s. and 6d.
An impression in the volume "Foreign Portraits" at SAL has the following handwritten inscription under the portrait "this space in the Copper Plate has been left for to add any accounts that may be thought Propper this under is the Inscripton as on the original Monument Painted in the Dome at Florence near sixty feet from the Ground".
Digitised thanks to the kind donation of Prof. Richard Rastall FSA.
An impression in the volume "Foreign Portraits" at SAL has the following handwritten inscription under the portrait "this space in the Copper Plate has been left for to add any accounts that may be thought Propper this under is the Inscripton as on the original Monument Painted in the Dome at Florence near sixty feet from the Ground".
Digitised thanks to the kind donation of Prof. Richard Rastall FSA.
