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Object Type: print
Museum number: 2010,7081.3875
Title: Object: Mr William Bicknell Sen.r
Description: Portrait; half-length seated facing front reading a book and looking towarrds the viewer, wearing a dark suit, cravatt tied simple; a page cutter stuck between the pages on the right. 1813 Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: William Ward; After: Samuel Drummond
School/style: British
Production date: 1813
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 454 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 350 millimetres
Bibliographic references: Frankau 1904 / Eighteenth Century Artists and Engravers: William Ward A.R.A. and James Ward R.A. (26) (undescribed state); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (8a) (undescribed state); Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (8a) (undescribed state)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: William Bicknell
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: 2010,7081.3875

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