print
- Museum number
- 1911,0517.26.1-48
- Title
- Series: Engravings from the choicest works of Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA
- Description
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A book containing a series of 48 [of 50, plate 6 of Master Hope, and plate 41 of the Countess of Grosvenor are missing] mezzotints after the paintings of Lawrence, with an engraved titlepage and the address of Henry Graves & Co, made between the 1830s and late 1840s to the commission of Hodgson & Graves; the impressions are faced with a blank sheet of paper and accompanied by another sheet of description of the sitter and the painting; the frontispiece is a portrait of George IV, the (unnumbered) engraved titlepage has a vignette portrait of Lawrence, and is followed by a list of the paintings, their owners, and the engravers (London, nd)
Mezzotints and letterpress
- Production date
- 1835-1841 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 490 millimetres
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Width: 325 millimetres (sheet size)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The plates were evidently made over a period of years and possibly published individually in the first place. This volume is a later re-issue or reprint with the address of Henry Graves & Co on the titleplate (ie post-1844).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1911
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1911,0517.26.1-48
