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Published March 2d. 1778 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Lettered with name of sitter, size of picture and"}],"objectHistory":"This print is a plate from <i>Houghton Gallery</i>, published by John and Josiah Boydell, London, 1788. \r\n \r\nFreeman O'Donoghue, Freeman in &lt;u&gt;British Museum: Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits.&lt;/u&gt;, 1908-25, has pointed out that John Chaloner Smith's identification of the sitter as Sir Thomas Chaloner, the Younger (1559-1615) is erroneous and that the painting may represent one of his sons, possibly Thomas Chaloner the Regicide (1595-1661).  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Hamburg: Haendcke & Lehmkuhl, 1886. 1 p.l., viii, 94 p."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"O'Donoghue, Freeman.  <u>British Museum: Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits.</u>  London:  Printed by order of the Trustees, 1908-25."}],"production":"The accession entry states that this print was published as a plate in <i>Houghton Gallery</i> in 1788, but is originally dated on the print May 2 1778.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Chaloner, Thomas (Sir)","id":"N13211"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"coat of arms","id":"AAT126352"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.331-1959"],"accessionNumberNum":"331","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1959,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"3rd state","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-23","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}