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Object Type
print
Museum number
P,6.253
Title
Object:
Van Tromp
Description
Portrait, bust directed to right, looking towards the viewer, a thick dark velvet cloak over a breastplate with a velvet cap drawn lower over left side of his head, pearl earring, fair curly hair and moustache; after Rembrandt; scratched-letter state. Mezzotint
Producer name
Print made by:
George Graham
After:
Rembrandt
Published by:
Colnaghi
School/style
British
Production date
1788-1813
(circa)
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
Dimensions
Height:
382 millimetres
Width:
278 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Chaloner Smith queries whether or not the title identifies the sitter correctly, noting that it does not resemble Bryer's print of Van Tromp (after Lely, CS 41).
Bibliographic references
Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century
(3)
(undescribed state)
Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits"
(3.I)
Charrington 1923 / A Catalogue of the Mezzotints after, or said to be after, Rembrandt
(55)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Maerten van Tromp
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
(with Philipe's oval stamp and the initials CMC)
Acquisition date
1799
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
P,6.253