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Object Type: print
Museum number: Aa,13.4
Title: Object: Resignation
Description: Portrait of an old bearded man after Reynolds (Mannings 2138), three-quarter length seated in an armchair to left, head almost in profile, wearing a loose fur-lined robe; a small table with books by his right hand, pillars behind; state before title within verse. 1772 Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: Thomas Watson (also publisher); After: Sir Joshua Reynolds; Published by: Samuel Hooper; Published by: Walter Shropshire
School/style: British
Production date: 1772
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 505 millimetres; Width: 353 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Goldsmith dedicated his poem 'The Deserted Village' to Reynolds in 1769, and the following year the painter produced and dedicated this picture to the poet, describing it as 'an attempt to express a character in the 'Deserted Village'".
Bibliographic references: Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (43a.I); Goodwin / British Mezzotinters: Thomas Watson, James Watson, Elizabeth Judkins (51.I); Hamilton 1884 / A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (p.154.II)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Illustration to: Oliver Goldsmith; Portrait of: George White
Associated titles
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2446)
Acquisition date: 1830-1833 (between)
Acquisition notes: See comment on Aa,1.1.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Aa,13.4

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