Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
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Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode was an English book and old master print collector, and a major benefactor of the British Museum.
Etching of Charles Mordaunt Cracherode, 1818
The Three Crosses, drypoint by Rembrandt, 1653, State III of IV. Cracherode owned five impressions of this print, although not the one shown.
6 engraved gems set in rings that Cracherode donated to the British Museum
Shute Barrington
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Shute Barrington was an English churchman, Bishop of Llandaff in Wales, as well as Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham in England.
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
…Only two books, the Complutensian Polyglot, and the editio princeps of Homer which formerly belonged to De Thou, were excepted. The former he gave to Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham, and the latter to Cyril Jackson; these volumes ultimately came to the national collection. His collection of prints included superb…
Portrait by Thomas Lawrence
Memorial to Barrington at Durham Cathedral