The right honble. Chas. Wolfran Cornwall Esq., Speaker of the House of Commons – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The right honble. Chas. Wolfran Cornwall Esq., Speaker of the House of Commons comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The right honble. Chas. Wolfran Cornwall Esq., Speaker of the House of Commons
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Charles Wolfran Cornwall was a British politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1780 until his death in 1789, and this engraved portrait appeared in the November 1780 issue of The London Magazine, printed between pages 491 and 492. Its place in a monthly periodical reflects the eighteenth-century habit of pairing current political figures with a brief biographical sketch for readers following Parliament. The print also sits within the Library of Congress's checklist of graphics relating to the American Revolution, a subject tied to Cornwall because the Commons under his time was debating the war with the American colonies.
| Created / published | 1780 Nov. |
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| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1780.Portrait prints 1780.Engravings 1780. |
| Notes | Illus. in: The London magazine. London : Printed by C. Ackers for J. Wilford, 1780 Nov., between pgs. 491-492. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 33. |
| Subjects | Cornwall, Charles Wolfran,--1735-1789. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 962 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-122447 |
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