print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.4921
- Description
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Portrait of Arthur Torrens; full-length seated to right, looking ahead, right hand on his cane with the elbow resting on the back of his chair, left elbow resting on a table beside him, wearing a dark suit with military trousers and a medal; top hat, papers and books on the table, window behind it; curtain behind to left and waste-paper basket and letters on the floor in the left foreground; after Lowes Dickinson; sitter's proof. 1864
Mixed method mezzotint on chine collé
- Production date
- 1864
- Dimensions
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Height: 360 millimetres
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Width: 457 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The Lennox-Boyd database describes also a state with the same publication line engraved above the image.
- 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
- 2010,7081.4921