print; frontispiece

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Object Type: print; frontispiece
Museum number: Ii,3.137
Title: Object: Admiral Sir James Saumarez, Bt. G.C.B.
Description: Portrait, half-length; standing to right, with head turned to look towards front; wearing naval uniform with epaulettes, medal on chest on right, sash, white neckerchief tied in a bow, and frill; cloudy sky behind; smoke on right in distance; frontispiece to Volume IV of Edward Pelham Brenton's "The Naval History of Great Britain" (London: 1823-1825); after Carbonnier. 1823 Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: Charles Turner; After: Carbonnier; Published by: Charles Turner
School/style
Production date: 1823
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 230 millimetres; Width: 147 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See 1981,U.592 for another impression.
Bibliographic references: Whitman 1907 / Nineteenth Century Mezzotinters: Charles Turner (62); O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (1)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Portrait of: Adm James Saumarez, 1st Baron Saumarez; Illustration to: Capt Edward Pelham Brenton
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1832
Acquisition notes: The printed 'List of additions made to the collections in the British Museum in the year 1832' records this gift by Captain Brenton.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Ii,3.137

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