print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.1952
- Title
- Object: Master spinning his Top
- Description
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Portrait of Philip Mercier, the artist's son, as a boy, three-quarter length directed to right, smiling towards the viewer showing a spinning top turning on right palm, holding up the string in left hand, wearing an open coat over a light suit, with a ribbon round his throat, hair tied at the nape with a bow; after Mercier.
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1780s (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 153 millimetres
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Width: 115 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See the large version by McArdell (Chaloner Smith 128; 1876,1111.1). There are other reduced versions: one by Spooner in the same direction to this published by Sayer, one by Brookshaw in the reverse direction published by Marshal, and one published by W Turner, (2010,7081.2211, 2212 and 1659)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.1952