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Portrait of William Beckford: P.13463-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Portrait of William Beckford

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Chapman, John
Publisher: Wilkes, John

Entities

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1923) by Perceval, Spencer George

Dating

18th Century
1798 -

Note

Lettered with artist's name, title and publication line; London Published as the Act directs April 19 1798, by J. Wilkes. Format suggests that the print was an Illustration to an edition of the "Encyclopaedia Londinensis". According to O'Donoghue, copied from the stipple by Bartolozzi after Carlini dated 1772.

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Colour printing
Stipple

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.13463-R
Primary reference Number: 204365
O'Donoghue: 11
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Friday 3 July 2015 Updated: Wednesday 13 July 2016 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Citation for print

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Portrait of William Beckford" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/204365 Accessed: 2024-11-06 00:16:57

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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/204365 |title=Portrait of William Beckford |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-06 00:16:57|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

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