print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.5158
- Title
- Object: A Literary Party at Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Description
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Group portrait of nine men around a table set with fruit and decanters, served by a black page; Johnson on the left talking to Edmund Burke, with Boswell, Reynolds, who holds a trumpet to his ear, Garrick, Pasquale Paoli and Charles Burney, sitting and listening; Warton sitting at the end of the table to right, whispering something to Goldsmith; a Japanese screen on the right, curtains, a miniature portrait to left and a portrait bust to left; Reynolds' pictures of Puck (Mannings 2142) and the Infant Academy (Mannings 2092) hanging on the wall; after James E Doyle; with semi-filled letters. 1848
Mixed method engraving on chine collé
- Production date
- 1848
- Dimensions
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Height: 458 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 590 millimetres (trimmed?)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The print was republished by Owen Bailey in 1851 with different lettering: the title of the print appeared in Gothic script with the facsimile signatures of all the sitters below (information from Donato Esposito 2013). For this see 1923,0714.29.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.5158