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Object Type
Museum number: 1902,1011.1314
Description: Portrait of Michael Xin, standing in interior beside table whole-length to left, his right hand to breast with a crucifix in the left, looking towards window and left, wearing Chinese costume; after Godfrey Kneller; before change of address. 1736 Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: John Faber the Younger; After: Sir Godfrey Kneller
School/style
Production date: 1736
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 502 millimetres; Width: 352 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: After the 1687 painting by Godfrey Kneller in The Royal Collection, Windsor Palace, titled 'Michael Alphonsus Shen Fu-Tsung, The Chinese Convert', inv.nr.405666.
Bibliographic references: Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (92); Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (92.II)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Portrait of: Michael Xin; Associated with: Philippe Couplet; Associated with: Dr Richard Mead
Associated ethnic name
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1902
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1902,1011.1314

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