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Object Type
print
Museum number
1886,0617.68
Title
Object:
Mr Serjeant Glyn, John Wilkes Esqr, The Revd Mr John Horne
Description
Group portrait, seated around a table, Glyn to left wearing bands and short wig, right hand on his knee, holding quill in l, Horne Tooke opposite him, leaning forward and gesturing as he speaks, and between them Wilkes, who wears a fur-trimmed cloak and points at papers on the table labelled 'Addresses to County County of Middlesex Constitutional Legal Liberty / General Warrants Seizure of Papers Habeas Corpus Alteration of Records Informations ex Office Close Imprisonment / Treatise on Inclosing Commons Freedom of Elections Trial by Jury Letters to Sr. J. Gibbons and Sir W. B. Proctor', with a folding screen to right and a picture behind of an allegorical female figure holding a scroll of Magna Charta; finished state before Smith's address erased. 1769 Mezzotint
Producer name
Print made by:
Richard Houston
Published by:
Robert Sayer
Published by:
John Smith of Cheapside
School/style
British
Production date
1769
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
Dimensions
Height:
305 millimetres
Width:
390 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century
(48)
Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits"
(48.I)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
politics
Associated names
Portrait of:
John Glynn
Portrait of:
John Wilkes
Portrait of:
John Horne Tooke
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Samuel Addington
Purchased through:
Sotheby's
(27.v.1886/664)
Purchased through:
William Walker
Acquisition date
1886
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1886,0617.68