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Object Type
Museum number: 1864,1210.447
Title: Object: John Montagu, Duke of Montagu; Series: Kitcat Club
Description: Plate 6: Portrait, half-length directed to the right, hat under his left arm, holding a cane in his right hand at waist level, looking towards the viewer, wearing long pale wig, coat, badge, cravat and sash hanging diagonally from his left shoulder; arms below; lettered state. 1731 Mezzotint with etching
Producer name: Print made by: John Faber the Younger; After: Sir Godfrey Kneller
School/style
Production date: 1731
Materials
Technique: mezzotint; etching
Dimensions: Height: 347 millimetres; Width: 251 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Part of a set of mezzotints after the Kit Kat Club portraits, bound together in red at the BM bindery, with an engraved dedication to Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset, and manuscript list of the members (1864,1210.439 to 487). For more on the series, see curator's comment for 1902,1011.1547.
Bibliographic references: Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (208 (6)); O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (3)
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1864
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1864,1210.447

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