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Object Type
print
Museum number
1935,0413.122
Title
Object:
Lord Viscount Duncan
Description
Portrait, three quarter length, standing, directed to right, facing and looking to front, long telescope in right hand, left hand on hip; subject altered from Sir Edward Hawke. 1741, this state c.1797 Mezzotint
Producer name
Print made by:
John Faber the Younger
After:
Christian Friedrich Zincke
Published by:
George Thompson
Published by:
Thomas Evans
School/style
British
Production date
1797
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
Dimensions
Height:
355 millimetres
Width:
253 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
The plate is so completely altered that at first sight impressions appear to come from different plates.
Bibliographic references
Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century
(259.IV)
Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits"
(259.IV)
Layard 1927 / Catalogue Raisonné of Engraved British Portraits from Altered Plates
(84.V)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Ulick de Burgh-Browne, 7th Marquis of Sligo
Acquisition date
1935
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1935,0413.122