Tillotson Archbiship of Canterbury

Date1738-1742

Engraver Jacobus Houbraken (1698-1780)

After work by Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723)

MediumEtching and line engraving

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1977-6

DescriptionAround frame: "TILLOTSON ARCH BISHOP/ OF CANTERBURY"
Lower margin reads: "Jacobus Houbraken sculps. Amst./ In the Collection of the Right Hon: the Master of the Rolls../ y? [ill]"
Label TextThis is one of the portraits for the Kit Kat Club and was then included in volumes of Birch's "The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, Engraved by Mr Houbraken and by Mr Vertue" (London, 1743-1752) (compiling of portraits of famous people); these were sold in the Colonies.