FDA-P.68-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.68-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Sir John Mordaunt
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (person)
Mordaunt, John (Sir), 1808 - 1845 (Sitter)
Content (note)
Half-length, in a brown coat, and a yellow waistcoat
Dimensions
height (sight size): 750mm
width (sight size): 625
width (sight size): 625
Inscription
Signed and dated 'Margaret Carpenter 1829'
Physical description
Elaborate carved gilt frame
Production
Person
Date
1829
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master at Eton College
Exhibited: Tate, no.30; Dulwich, no.34
Exhibited: Tate, no.30; Dulwich, no.34
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.41, no. 121, Plate XL)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.47)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (p.95)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.47)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (p.95)
