IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240136 accession number: P.15108-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2020 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: After the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds (c.1779; Mannings, 706; Folger Shakespeare Library, 121, which is described by Martin Postle as 'a studio replica possibly with Reynolds's participation of the previous picture', i.e. Mannings, 705, 'The Prologue Portrait', National Trust, Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent, 261). Seated half-length at a writing desk, facing front, turned slightly towards the left and looking out at the spectator. Books, ink well and quill and manuscript inscribed 'Prologue' are before him. Hands are clasped together on the desk. Wears a dark coat with lace at cuffs and at neck and a short, powdered wig. Set within a narrow rectangular frame. title: print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay, 1912 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240136 TECHNIQUES ---------- mezzotint CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1779 - 1779 creation date earliest: 1779 creation date latest: 1779 culture: 18th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Watson, Thomas maker: Watson, Thomas maker: Dickinson, William maker: Reynolds, Joshua