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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1830,0714.55
Title: Object: Resignation
Description: Portrait of an old bearded man after Reynolds (Mannings 2138), three-quarter length seated in an armchair to left, head almost in profile, wearing a loose fur-lined robe; a small table with books by his right hand, pillars behind; published state. 1772 Mezzotint
Producer name: After: Sir Joshua Reynolds; Print made by: Thomas Watson; Published by: Samuel Hooper; Published by: Walter Shropshire; Published by: Thomas Watson
School/style: British
Production date: 1772
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 505 millimetres; Width: 354 millimetres
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Curator's comments: See ms notes in P&D copy of Chaloner Smith, Vol IV, p.1566.
Bibliographic references: Hamilton 1884 / A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (p.154.III); Goodwin / British Mezzotinters: Thomas Watson, James Watson, Elizabeth Judkins (51.III); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Associated with: Oliver Goldsmith
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Sotheby's
Acquisition date: 1830
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1830,0714.55
Additional IDs: Other BM number: Aa,13.5

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