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Object Type
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
Production date: 1778
Materials
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
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1811
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: G,2.16

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