FDA-E.1204-2014
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.1204-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
The Right Honourable Lord Rodney
Title Type
assigned by artist
Comments
2nd state
Other number
SW 157
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 620mm
width (actual size): 392mm
width (actual size): 392mm
Inscription
Lettered 'K.B. Vice Admiral of Great Britain and Admiral of The White etc'
Inscription description
Collector's mark 'GWS' lower left corner
Physical description
Production
Person
Dupont, Gainsborough, 1754 - 1797 (Engraver)
Gainsborough, Thomas (R. A.), 1727 - 1788 (Source artist)
Evans, B. Beale (Publisher)
Gainsborough, Thomas (R. A.), 1727 - 1788 (Source artist)
Evans, B. Beale (Publisher)
Date
12/04/1788
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of George Warren Swire (1883-1949); by whom bequeathed to Eton College
Previous ownership
References
• Smith, J.C., British Mezzotinto Portraits, Part I, London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883 (p. 241)
