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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1950,0520.218
Description: Portrait of John Bryer seen bust-length to right within oval frame, eyes to front, wearing tricorn hat and uniform; proof before letters, and margin cleaned. Before 1780 Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: Valentine Green; After: Thomas Beach
School/style: British
Production date: 1754-1780
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 393 millimetres; Width: 278 millimetres
Curator's comments: An annotation in the departmental copies of Russell and Whitman records another state, before letters but with margins cleaned, which would make this impression prior to Russell's state I. However this is confusing, unless the note refers either to an intermediary state with the margins partially cleaned, or a later, unlettered state with clean margins, since the margins in the scratched-letter state (see 1902,1011.2271) are not completely cleaned.
Bibliographic references: Whitman 1902 / British Mezzotinters: Valentine Green (83); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (14); Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (14.I)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: John Bryer
Acquisition name: Donated by: F W B Maufe; Donated by: Mrs G B Lane
Acquisition date: 1950
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1950,0520.218

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