Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: The Right Honourable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
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Accession number:
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29118
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Record number:
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29118-001
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JCB call number:
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DD Drake 3210
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Image title:
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The Right Honourable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
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Place image published:
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Boston
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Image publisher:
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Printed by John Fleeming. and to be sold at his shop in King Street, opposite the south-door of the town-house
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Image date:
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1772
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Image function:
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title page
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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5.1 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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5.1 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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17.6 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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10.7 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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English
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Description:
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Portrait of William Pitt.
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Source Title:
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Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack. For the year of our Lord 1772
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Source place of publication:
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Boston
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Source publisher:
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Printed by John Fleeming. and to be sold at his shop in King Street, opposite the south-door of the town-house
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Source date:
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1772
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notes:
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The author, whose preface is signed "Isaac Bickerstaff," was Benjamin West. The eclipse predictions are identical, and calendar page notes correspond closely, with those in West's The New-England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary, for 1772 (Providence). The calendar page calculations for the moon's place, rising, and setting, are also identical, though the others vary, being for Boston rather than Providence.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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References:
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Cf. Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 22 (1912): 34-35; Drake, M. Almanacs, 3210
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1942.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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North America
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Subject Area:
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Portraits
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Subject headings:
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Pitt, William, 1759-1806
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