About this artwork
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artist:Richard Cooper (1740 - 1814) Scottish
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title:Arthur Johnston, c 1577 - 1641. Poet and physician
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date created:Published 1739
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after:George Jamesone (1589/90 - 1644) Scottish
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materials:Line engraving on paper
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measurements:15.57 x 7.95 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Bequeathed by William Finlay Watson 1886
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accession number:SP II 55.7
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Richard Cooper
Richard Cooper
Born in Edinburgh, Cooper was apprenticed to his father, the artist Richard Cooper, the Elder (1701 – 1764) and trained as a reproductive engraver. He is best known for his landscape drawings and his copy drawings after paintings by the old masters. He spent much of the 1760s and 1770s on an...
