book-illustration;
print
- Museum number
- 1843,0513.19
- Description
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Portrait of Tobias Smollett after Reynolds (?); head and shoulders, head turned to face right, wearing plain coat open over waistcoat with frill and wig; on the right of the sheet an illustration to Smollet's Works, with a group at a port greeting a man wearing plumed hat and sword, ship beyond to right; proof title-page vignette and frontispiece to an unidentified work
Stipple, engraving and etching
- Production date
- 1800-1840 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 198 millimetres
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Width: 209 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Painting not in Mannings
See ms note in Hamilton p.64
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1843
- Acquisition notes
- 1843,0513.1 to 504 were purchased from W & G Smith as a group for £543 5s 6d. A few individual prices over £5 were recorded and have been separately entered. Otherwise they are recorded as 12 blocks, each with its own sub-price.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1843,0513.19
