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The Honourable Richard Edgecumbe

Maker

After
(artist)
1723-1792

(engraver)
1773-1835

(publisher)

Title

The Honourable Richard Edgecumbe

Date of Production

(c.) 1820

Medium

printed in black
wove paper
mezzotint

Dimensions

Height: 22.6 cm
Width: 16.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.6117.75

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Literature

Nineteenth-Century Mezzotinters Samuel William Reynolds
No. 71 on p. 152
in appendix

Inscriptions

Inscription: Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinx.t //

Inscription: S.W. Reynolds Sculp.t //

Inscription: THE HON.LE R.D EDGECUMBE. / Proof //

Inscription: 85 / III //

Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //

Inscription: RA1774(222)C //

Inscription: Sir Joshua Reynolds / 250th Anniversary Exhib. City Art Gallery, Plymouth 1973 //

Label: Lit: / E.K.W., p 64 / 77 Hon Richard Edgcumbe 1774 / Mezzotint engraving, 0.22 x 0.165 / Engraved by S.W. Reynolds, after Sir Joshua Reynolds. / The original portrait by Reynolds, 0.76 x 0.62, was exhibited at the R.A. / 1774 (222) and hung at Mount Edgcumbe, where it was destryoed by / enemy action during World War II. / Richard (b. 1764), later 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and Lord / Lieutenant of Cornwall, was the son of George, 1st Earl of Mount / Edgcumbe (no. 19 & 70) and his wife Emma Gilbert (no. 71). In 1789 / he married Sophia (d. 1806), daughter of 2nd Earl of Buckingham. / Lent by the trustees of the Cottonian Collection. //

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