IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240103 accession number: P.15073-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2020 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The second plate by Say after the first of Reynolds' group portraits of the Society, known as the 'vase' picture (1777-9; Mannings, 510; The Society of Dilettanti, London). Seven men sitting or standing around a table, drinking wine, a view of a parkland landscape to the left. The figure seated at the centre, Sir William Hamilton, points to an illustration of a Greek vase from his own collection and which stands on the table in front of him. The figure of Sir John Taylor, standing behind to the left, holds up a lady's garter for inspection. title: print NOTES ----- type: history note value: A curatorial inscription in Eric Chamberlain's hand written into Hamilton states that this print came into the Fitzwilliam collection framed as one of a pair with a framed impression of the first plate of the Dilettanti Society by Turner after Reynolds, both 'provenance unknown'. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240103 TECHNIQUES ---------- mezzotint CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1812 - 1812 creation date earliest: 1812 creation date latest: 1812 culture: 18th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Say, William maker: Reynolds, Joshua