Com.e Keppel Portrait of Commodore Keppel, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
Printmaker:
Unknown
Publisher:
Darly, Mary
Painter:
Reynolds, Joshua
(After)
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.
Unknown
by unknown
18th Century
Production date:
after
AD 1752
Height 133mm (plate) x width 106mm (plate); height 136mm (sheet) x width 112mm (sheet)
Accession number: P.14810-R
Primary reference Number: 225419
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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