print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1866,1013.781
- Title
- Object: Admiral George-Brydges Rodney, Baron Rodney
- Description
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Portrait, three-quarter length seated in an armchair, three-quarter to right, looking towards the viewer, in uniform with riband and star, his right hand on crossed legs, hat in his left hand; after Mosnier; illustration to William Jerdan's 'National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Persons of the 19th Century' (Fisher, Son & Co. 1846); state before publication date altered. 1834
Stipple with etching
- Production date
- 1834
- Dimensions
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Height: 225 millimetres
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Width: 144 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See later state 1865,0114.545.
The print gives Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer as the painter of the portrait. In fact, as pointed out by Abigail Chapman (email correspondence, January 2017) the original painting was by Jean-Laurant Mosnier (1791, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Persons of the 19th Century (1846)
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1866,1013.781
