Skip to main content

Marquis Cornwallis: P.40-1958

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Marquis Cornwallis
Portrait of Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquess Cornwallis, 1738-1805

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ward, James
Publisher: Poggi, Antonio Cesare
Painter: Beechey, William (After)

Entities

Categories

Legal notes

Given by Louis C. G. Clarke, Trinity Hall, April 1958

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1958) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray

Dating

18th Century
Production date: AD 1799

Note

Inscriptions on bottom "Marquis Cornwallis, Lord Lieutenant and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces in the Kingdom of Ireland; knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Master General of the Ordenance &c &c &c" and "Painted by Sir W. Beechey RA" and "Engraved by J Ward" and "London, Published Jany 1. 1799, by A.C. de Poggi, No 91 New Bond Street".

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Mezzotint

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.40-1958
Primary reference Number: 206139
Chaloner Smith: 13.II
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Thursday 13 August 2015 Updated: Friday 28 August 2015 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

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Marquis Cornwallis" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206139 Accessed: 2024-12-22 16:12:19

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206139 |title=Marquis Cornwallis |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 16:12:19|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-206139

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...