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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1935,0413.55
Title: Object: Major General Wolfe
Description: Portrait, altered from Louis Dejean by Faber after Mercier, half-length in an oval, in uniform with braids at the shoulders, three-quarter to right, wearing a coat with embroidery along the lapels and cuffs, tricorn under left arm, right arm tucked inside his coat, left hand on hip, a fortress in the background to right, a map labelled 'Quebec' to left; stated to be after Turin.
Producer name: Print made by: Richard Purcell; Print made by: John Faber the Younger; After: Philippe Mercier; Published by: Elizabeth Bakewell; Published by: Henry Parker
School/style: British
Production date: 1722-1756 (c.)
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 327 millimetres; Width: 225 millimetres
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Curator's comments: An altered state of Chaloner Smith: Faber II no. 112. The name of F.Turin is obviously fictitious.
Bibliographic references: Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (80) (as Purcell); Layard 1927 / Catalogue Raisonné of Engraved British Portraits from Altered Plates (38.III)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: General James Wolfe
Acquisition name: Donated by: Ulick de Burgh-Browne, 7th Marquis of Sligo (L.2353a)
Acquisition date: 1935
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1935,0413.55

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