Com.e Keppel: P.14810-R

Titles

Com.e Keppel
Portrait of Commodore Keppel, after Sir Joshua Reynolds

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Darly, Mary
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)

Entities

• Print

Categories

• Print

Description

Etching on laid paper. This is probably a copy after the portrait of Commodore Augustus Keppel described as 13 in O'Donoghue, which is a mezzotint by an anonymous printmaker after the portrait in oils by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1752; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich), half length, looking to the right. Scratched lettering at lower right: 'M.Y. Darly Ext', relates to the print publisher, Mary Darly. Open letters engraved at lower centre: 'COM.E KEPPEL'. An inscription written in brown ink at lower right: 'born abt. 1725'. On the verso, handwritten inscriptions in graphite: '1/4 of 3'; '_734_'. Two lines of handwritten text in brown ink (possibly the same hand as on recto): ' [...] William Pitt as asked the [?glory] of our / during his illustrious administration'. A note in the British Museum's on-line biography of Darly states that, 'Most plates signed M.Darly as publisher seem to be hers', indicating that Mary Darly may also be the printmaker in this case.

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