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The Right Honourable Henry Seymour Conway: P.69-1952

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The Right Honourable Henry Seymour Conway
Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway, 1719-1795

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dupont, Richard Gainsborough
Publisher: Sayer, Robert
Painter: Gainsborough, Thomas (After)

Entities

Categories

Legal notes

Purchased from the Perceval Fund, February 1952

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1952)

Dating

18th Century
Production date: AD 1780

Note

Inscriptions on bottom "Thomas Gainsborough R.A. pinxit." and "Gainsborough Dupont sculpsit." and "London. Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, Map and Printsellers, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 26 July 1780." and "One of His majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, Colonel of His Majesty's Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, General of His Majesty's Forces & Governor of the Island of Jersey, &c".

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Mezzotint

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.69-1952
Primary reference Number: 206113
Chaloner Smith: 3.II
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Thursday 13 August 2015 Updated: Monday 25 October 2021 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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