Tag Archives: Mezzotints

James Boswell of Auchinleck, Esqr

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“Portrait of James Boswell after Reynolds (Mannings 214); half-length, turned to left, eyes to front; wearing plain, unbuttoned coat and waistcoat; curtain and landscape behind; lettered state before title erased.”–British Museum online catalogue.

 

  • Printmaker: Jones, J. (John), approximately 1745-1797, printmaker.
  • Title: James Boswell of Auchinleck, Esqr [graphic] / painted by Sr. Joshua Reynolds ; engrav’d by John Jones.
  • Edition: [State 3].
  • Publication: London : Pubd. as the act directs Janry. 17, 1786, by I. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street, Mary-le-bone, [17 January 1786]

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Portraits B747 no. 4+

Acquired January 2023

Happy Jerry

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Boatman on riverbank with bridge and buildings behind being greeted by sailor and city gent.
“A Thames waterman who thought himself betrayed by his wife and friend is reunited with both, who take his hands, the woman on the left in man’s dress, having looked for him throughout the world; on a wharf with oars propped against the walls of a house to left, a boat moored nearby and a bridge in the background.”–British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state.

 

  • Title: Happy Jerry [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Published 10th May 1793 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London, [10 May 1793]

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793.05.10.01

Acquired November 2022

Strive not Tragedy nor Comedy to engross a Garrick

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“Portrait of David Garrick after Reynolds (Mannings 700); standing three-quarter length between Comedy and Tragedy, smiling towards the latter, but allowing the former to tug him towards her; landscape behind.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker.
  • Title: Strive not Tragedy nor Comedy to engross a Garrick, who to your noblest characters does equal honour [graphic] / J. Reynolds pinxt. ; C. Corbutt fecit.
  • Publication: London : Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street, [between 1762 and 1766]

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Portraits G41 no. 5+

Acquired April 2023

Master Bunbury

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“Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 276); three-quarter length seated under a tree, facing front with hands resting on his thighs; published state before date altered from 1st to 12th November.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Haward, Francis, 1759-1797, printmaker, publisher.
  • Title: Master Bunbury [graphic] / painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds ; engraved by Francis Haward.
  • Edition: [State 3].
  • Publication: London : Publish’d Novr. 1st, 1781, by Fras. Haward, Lambeth Marsh near the Turnpike, [1 November 1781]

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Portraits B87a no. 1+

Acquired April 2023

Arise, and take the young child

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“The Holy Family resting during the Flight into Egypt; St Joseph standing beside the donkey, drawing his cloak around him, the Virgin laying the infant Jesus on a rock, holding the edge of His garment in right hand, gesturing with the other, two cherubs standing together and watching to left.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Walker, James, approximately 1748-approximately 1822, printmaker, publisher.
  • Title: Vostavʺ poimi otrocha i materʹ ego, i bi︠e︡zhi vo Egipetʺ [graphic] = Arise, and take the young child, and his mother, and flee into Egypt / painted by Murillo ; Jas. Walker Engrr. to her I.M. and memr. of the Impl. Acady. of Arts St. Petersburg fecit.
    Воставъ поими отроча и матерь его, и бѣжи во Египетъ [graphic] = Arise, and take the young child, and his mother, and flee into Egypt / painted by Murillo ; Jas. Walker Engrr. to her I.M. and memr. of the Impl. Acady. of Arts St. Petersburg fecit.
  • Publication: [London] : Publish’d Jany. 1, 1792, as the act directs by Jas. Walker; St. Petersburg : W. Hodges, Queen Street, May Fair and R. Blamire, Strand, London, [1 January 1792]

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792.01.01.01++

Acquired April 2022

Lieutenant Colonel Henry Townshend

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“Portrait after Reynolds (?); standing almost half-length to right beside a bust, eyes to front, hat under his left arm and his hand inside his coat.”–British Museum online catalogue

  • Printmaker: McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker.
  • Title: Lieutenant Colonel Henry Townshend [graphic] / J.M. Ardell fecit.
  • Edition: [State 2].
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1762?]

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Portraits T753He no.1+

Acquired June 2021

George 1st Marquess Townshend

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“Portrait, half-length, seated to front, with head turned to look to left, his right forearm leaning on a table, holding a telescope; wearing armour, and folded fabric draped over his right shoulder; curtain at left; after Joshua Reynolds (Mannings 1762).”–British Museum online catalogue, description of scratched-letter state.

  • Printmaker: Josey, Richard, approximately 1841-1906, printmaker.
  • Title: George 1st Marquess Townshend [graphic] : from the original picture in the possession of Robert Lovell Gwatkin Esqre. / Sir Joshua Reynolds ; T. Jose [sic].
  • Publication: London : Henry Graves & Compy., 6 Pall Mall, 1866.

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Portraits T753G no.1

Acquired June 2021

The Honble. Colonel Townshend

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“Portrait of George Townshend standing three-quarter length slightly to left and leaning his right elbow on pedestal beside curtain, eyes to front, wearing uniform, his own hair curled, holding paper in his right hand labelled ‘A Bill Intituled, An Act for the Better Order of the Militia Forces.”–British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.

  • Printmaker: McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker.
  • Title: The Honble. Colonel Townshend [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [not before 1764]

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Portraits T753G no.2

Acquired June 2021

Spectators at a print-shop

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“Satire; an extravagantly dressed woman catches a fashionable man by the arm as she points with her fan at a mezzotint droll in a print-shop window; a small dog looks up at her; an old gentleman with a stick standing on the right, stares at the prints and is surprised by a man with a warrant for his arrest.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, printmaker.
  • Title: Spectators at a print-shop in St. Paul’s Church Yard [graphic].
  • Edition: [State with plate no.].
  • Publication: [London] : Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, published as the act directs […] [not before 25 June 1774]

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774.06.25.01

Acquired November 2021

The Most Noble George Marquis Townshend

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“Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1764); Standing whole-length wearing armour with his hand resting on a table, behind him a tent and cavalry.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Turner, Charles, 1774-1857, printmaker.
  • Title: The Most Noble George Marquis Townshend [graphic] / painted by Sir Josa. Reynolds ; engraved by C. Turner.
  • Publication: London : Published Jany. 1, 1807, for the proprietor by Charles Turner, No. 50 Warren Street, Fitzroy Square, [1 January 1807]

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Drawer Portraits T753G no.5

Acquired June 2021