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Object Type
Museum number: 1840,0808.42
Title: Object: Sir Jeffery Amherst, K.B.
Description: Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 54); three-quarter length to front, resting his chin on his right hand, looking to left; wearing star and sash over armour, his helmet on plan of Montreal before him; landscape behind; final published state. 1766; this state after 1795 Mezzotint
Producer name: After: Sir Joshua Reynolds; Print made by: James Watson; Published by: John Boydell; Published by: Josiah Boydell
School/style
Production date: 1766
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 457 millimetres; Width: 330 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Hamilton 1884 / A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (p.1.V); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (2.IV); Goodwin / British Mezzotinters: Thomas Watson, James Watson, Elizabeth Judkins (38.V)
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1840
Acquisition notes: £242 was the total paid for the group 1840,0808.1 to 203. Individual prices are sometimes recorded, and have been noted on the records.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1840,0808.42

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