Self-portrait of Jonathan Richardson (the Elder)
Printmaker: Richardson, Jonathan
Etching on white laid paper. A head and shoulders self-portrait of painter, printmaker, writer and connoisseur, Jonathan Richardson, the Elder, directed towards the left, head turned towards the viewer. He wears a shoulder-length powdered wig and a cravat at the neckline of his coat. This particular self-portrait was used as the frontispiece to the 1776 publication by James Dodsley of Richardson’s poems, which were written between 1732 and 1736 and published under the title _Morning Thoughts, or Poetical Meditations, Moral, Divine and Miscellaneous_. P.14809-R is a reduced state. P.14808-R is another impression of the same reduced state. See also the reduced state held at the British Museum: 1889,0409.350. The British Museum also holds impressions of earlier states; see Li,3.89 and Q,1.140.
Unknown
by unknown
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1738
Height 167mm (plate) x width 111mm (plate); height 195mm (sheet) x width 128mm (sheet)
Accession number: P.14809-R
Primary reference Number: 225418
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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