print
- Museum number
- 2019,7015.299
- Title
- Object: Portrait de GF Watts R.A
- Description
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Portrait of George Frederick Watts wearing a cap and with beard, head and shoulders to right, eyes to front.
Etching with some drypoint
- Production date
- 1877-90
- Dimensions
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Height: 185 millimetres (Plate mark measurement)
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Height: 274 millimetres (Sheet measurement)
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Width: 134 millimetres (Plate mark measurement)
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Width: 216 millimetres (Sheet measurement)
- Curator's comments
- Comparison with two impressions of this print in the British Museum's collections suggest that it is either the second or third state.
See 1949,0411.2236 for this print in its first state with little shading on the sitter's clothing.
See 1931,0214.18 for state IV where tone has been added to the background.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2019
- Acquisition notes
- John Christian's files do not contain any paperwork relating to this print. It was acquired by the British Museum unmounted. The lower part of the sheet is annotated in pencil "198, Portrait of GF Watts" with price.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2019,7015.299