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print
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frontispiece
Object Type
print
frontispiece
Museum number
1859,0709.1194
Title
Object:
The Rt Honble Sir John Sinclair
Description
Portrait of John Sinclair, bust in profile to the left with head turned and looking at the viewer, wearing coat and neckerchief, hair curled at the ears and tied in a queue; in oval on rectangular frame; after Plimer; frontispiece to his 'Correspondence', 1831. Mezzotint and etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Thomas Hodgetts
After:
Andrew Plimer
(?)
Published by:
Henry Colburn
Published by:
Richard Bentley
School/style
British
Production date
1831
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
etching
Dimensions
Height:
191 millimetres
Width:
135 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(5)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Sir John Sinclair
Illustration to:
Sir John Sinclair
Associated titles
Associated Title:
The correspondence of the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, bart. : with reminiscences of the most distinguished characters who have appeared in Great Britain, and in foreign countries, during the last fifty years. Illustrated by facsimiles of two hundred autographs
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
A E Evans & Sons
Acquisition date
1859
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1859,0709.1194