'The Honourable William Cecil Esq.r', 1686.
Period
Stuart (1603 - 1714)
Description
Mezzotint, 250 x 337 mm (sheet size, plate mark cut off). Engraved by John Smith from a painting by W. Wissing. Sold by E. Cooper at Ye 3 Pigeons, Bedford Street. No date on this print but known to have been published in 1686.
Classicizing full-length portrait of Hon William Cecil, ?2nd son of John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter Cecil as a boy, in drapery and Grecian sandals, beside a stream, with a spaniel behind and pointing to a parrot in a nearby bush.
Type of original
mezzotint
Artist or photographer
Wissing, W.
Location depicted in image
[not applicable].
Copyright
Photo number
PX9269
