FDA-E.102-2014
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.102-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
William Augustus Bowles
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Other number
N STO 3b
Description
Content (person)
Bowles, William Augustus (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 423mm
width (actual size): 287mm
width (actual size): 287mm
Inscription
Inscribed in pencil: 'William Augustus Bowles [name repeated in ink] Chief of the Embassy from the Vreeke & Cherokee Nation'
Inscribed on reverse in ink 'very like him' and in pencil 'Portfolio 1'
Inscribed on reverse in ink 'very like him' and in pencil 'Portfolio 1'
Materials & techniques note
Mezzotint
Physical description
Cut to size
Production
Person
Grozer, Joseph, 1755 - 1799 (Engraver)
Date
1791
Note
No production details on print
History and association
References
• Smith, J.C., British Mezzotinto Portraits, Part II, London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883 (p. 604)
