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Object Type: print
Museum number: 2010,7081.3933
Title: Object: George Holme Sumner Esqr M.P.
Description: Portrait standing three-quarter length slightly to right leaning left arm on pile of books on table, holding rolled paper in his left hand, spectacles in his right, eyes to front; wearing dark suit and cravat, with curtain behind at left; touched unfinished proof before letters. 1814 Mezzotint touched with white and black ink on his right cheek and left temple
Producer name: Print made by: William Ward; After: Thomas Stewardson
School/style: British
Production date: 1814
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 452 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 353 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Frankau 1904 / Eighteenth Century Artists and Engravers: William Ward A.R.A. and James Ward R.A. (283.I); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (80) (undescribed state); Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (80.I)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: George Holme Sumner
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: 2010,7081.3933

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