print
- Museum number
- 1852,1009.1293
- Title
- Object: Members of the Society of Diletanti
- Description
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Group portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 510); seven men around a table, from left to right: Sir Watkin Williams Wynn seated in profile turned to right wearing 'toga' and pointing to vase in the centre of table, John Taylor standing turned right with eyes to front, holding woman's garter in his left hand, Stephen Payne-Gallway seated turned to left with glass raised to his mouth, Sir William Hamilton seated, gesturing to book on table, Richard Thompson standing behind in embroidered robes, raising a glass in his right hand and speaking to Walter Spencer-Stanhope, in profile turned to left, and John Lewin Smyth leans on the table, listening to Hamilton; proof before letters.
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1812-1816
- Dimensions
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Height: 579 millimetres
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Width: 416 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See Ian Jenkins and Kim Sloan, "Vases and Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and his Collection", for more information on the subject of this print.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1852
- Acquisition notes
- See 1852,1009.1141 for a note on the donation of Say’s prints.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1852,1009.1293
