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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1851,0308.205
Title: Object: John Dean
Description: Portrait, three-quarter length, holding a spear, leaning back to the right against a rock, an axe and rolled mat beside him, a knife in his belt, wearing only a tattered pair of shorts, gesturing and looking to left, a ship tossed in heavy waves in the background on the right; after Verelst. Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: John Faber the Younger; After: Willem Verelst
School/style: British
Production date: 1710-1756
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 354 millimetres; Width: 250 millimetres
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Bibliographic references: Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (111)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: John Dean
Acquisition name: Purchased from: A E Evans & Sons
Acquisition date: 1851
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1851,0308.205

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