FDA-E.390-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.390-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
The Hon. Augustus Keppel
Title Type
assigned by artist
Other number
SW 143
Description
Content (person)
Keppel, Augustus , 1725 - 1786 (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 453mm
width (actual size): 325mm
width (actual size): 325mm
Inscription
Lettered with title and 'Admiral of the Blue & Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, employed and to be employed in the Channel, Soundings &c in the Year 1778'
Inscription description
Stamped with collector's mark 'GWS'
Inscribed in pencil on reverse '9051'
Inscribed in pencil on reverse '9051'
Production
Person
Doughty, William, 1757 - 1781/2 (Engraver)
Reynolds, Joshua (Sir), 1723 - 1792 (Source artist)
Doughty, William, 1757 - 1781/2 (Publisher)
Reynolds, Joshua (Sir), 1723 - 1792 (Source artist)
Doughty, William, 1757 - 1781/2 (Publisher)
Date
12/03/1779
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of George Warren Swire (1883-1949); by whom bequeathed to Eton College
Previous ownership
References
• Hamilton, E., A Catalogue Raisonne of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., from 1755 to 1822, London: P&D Colnaghi and Co., 1884 (p. 143)
