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Object Type: print
Museum number: 2010,7081.753
Title: Object: General Field Marshal Count Suwarrow
Description: Portrait; full-length standing to left, looking to right, left hand on his hip, right on his sword-hilt, wearing a cloak, sash, fur-trimmed boots, fur-trimmed tasselled hat and medal; battle in the background to left, fortified city to right. Mezzotint with some etching, printed in grey-blue ink
Producer name: Published by: George Thompson; Published by: John Evans
School/style: British
Production date: 1799-1800 (c.)
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 357 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 255 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Suvarov took command of the Russian army in Italy early in 1799; he returned to Russia early the following year and died there on 18 May 1800. The print is therefore datable to 1799 or 1800. 2010,7081.752-754 are probably from a common source.
Bibliographic references: Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed); Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Representation of: Prince Suvarov
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: 2010,7081.753

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