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John Raphael Smith (1752-1812)
His Royal Highness GEORGE Prince of Wales 1789
Mezzotint | 65.9 x 45.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 605116
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Mezzotint of George IV as Prince of Wales. Whole length with tied wig, lace tie, waistcoat, sash, and embroidered coat with Garter star. Standing with right hand on hip, and with left resting on a horse. With a tree, cavalry, and landscape in the background. With English inscription below, including publisher's address, 'London Publish'd May 5th. 1789 by J, R, Smith, No 31 King Street Covent Garden.' Ninth state with stipple lettering, heavily reworked with alteration of background, and re-engraved to reflect the sitter's later corpulence.
State nine of ten. Plate heavily re-engraved over time, for earlier states see RCIN 605110, RCIN 605111, RCIN 605112, RCIN 605113, RCIN 605114, RCIN 650115, and for a later state see RCIN 650117.Provenance
Previously in the collection of Thomas Kirk, died 1797; in the Royal Collection by c.1900?
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Medium and techniques
Mezzotint
Measurements
65.9 x 45.6 cm (sheet of paper)
65.3 x 45.2 cm (platemark)
61.2 x 45.2 cm (image)
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O'D : O'Donoghue, F., 1908. Engraved British Portraits Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. Volume I-V, London – O'D (George IV) 19JCS : British Mezzotinto Portraits / by John Chaloner Smith, London 1884 – JCS III, p.1308: 167
