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Object Type
print
Museum number
1868,0808.1819
Title
Object:
The most Noble Prince John Duke of Montagu
Description
Portrait, three-quarter length, directed to left, looking and facing to front, left hand on sword-hilt at his side, right hand on baton, propped on ledge in front of him next to helmet, wearing armour, sash diagonally from left shoulder, white wig tied at the back, battle at the foot of a fort in the background; after Dahl; state after publisher altered from Faber before inscription altered to 'Master Genl of the Ordnance..'. Mezzotint
Producer name
Print made by:
John Faber the Younger
After:
Michael Dahl
Published by:
Thomas Bowles II
School/style
British
Production date
1710-1756
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
Dimensions
Height:
344 millimetres
Width:
251 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century
(245)
(undescribed state)
Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits"
(245.III)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
draughtsman/painter
Associated names
Portrait of:
John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
William Benoni White
Acquisition date
1868
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1868,0808.1819