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- Museum number
- Cc,1.243
- Title
- Object: The R.t Hon.ble Gustavus Lord Visc.t Boyne
- Description
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Copy of portrait after Hogarth, full-length standing in a landscape, right hand on a stone ledge, hat and cane in his left, looking at and bowing slightly to the viewer with right foot advanced, wearing a suit with a high sheen, the coat open to reveal a long waistcoat decorated with flourishes.
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1740s-1763
- Dimensions
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Height: 494 millimetres (image)
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Height: 518 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 368 millimetres (image)
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Width: 369 millimetres (trimmed?)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1825
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased from Colonel Phillips, who was given it by Lord Boyne, for 5 guineas in 1825. See J T Smith's report dated 10 March 1825. Stated to be extremely rare.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Cc,1.243
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1825,0608.1
