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Object Type: print
Museum number: 2010,7081.3598
Title: Object: Field Marshal Count Wurmser
Description: Portrait of Dagosbert Sigismund, almost half length in profile to left, wearing hussar uniform with open coat, a cross on a ribbon around his neck and a tall hat with a plume, over a wig with a queue; after Brand; after title letters shadowed on the right side. 1796 Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: John Young; After: Friedrich August Brand; Published by: Constantine Geisweiler
School/style: British; Austrian
Production date: 1796
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 355 millimetres; Width: 250 millimetres
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Bibliographic references: Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (71) (undescribed state after II); Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (46.II)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: Dagobert Sigismund von Wurmser, Count Wurmser; Portrait of: Henry William Lambton
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd
Funder name: With contribution from: National Heritage Memorial Fund; With contribution from: Art Fund; With contribution from: British Museum Friends; With contribution from: Friends of Prints and Drawings; With contribution from: Mrs Charles Wrightsman; With contribution from: Michael Marks Charitable Trust
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: 2010,7081.3598

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