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Object Type
print
Museum number
G,2.16
Description
Portrait of Thomas Pennant after Gainsborough (Waterhouse 540), half-length, three-quarter to left looking slightly up, wearing short wig curled at the sides, plain jacket with one button fastened, over a waistcoat and frill, holding a book on his side, under a tree, view in the left background, coat-of-arms below with lion rampant, boar, duck, fleur-des-lis charges, dragon's head and crown crest, olive and oak branch supports. 1778 Engraving with etching
Producer name
Print made by:
John Keyse Sherwin
After:
Thomas Gainsborough
School/style
British
Production date
1778
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
etching
Dimensions
Height:
301 millimetres
Width:
200 millimetres
(cut)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
For a note on Crowle’s extra-illustrated Pennant, see G.1.1
Bibliographic references
Horne 1891 / An Illustrated Catalogue of Engraved Portraits and Fancy Subjects painted by Thomas Gainsborough, RA, Published between 1760 and 1820, and by George Romney, Published between 1770 and 1830 with the Variations of the State of the Plates
(51.I)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Thomas Pennant
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
John Charles Crowle
Acquisition date
1811
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
G,2.16