IDENTIFIERS
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id:	225417
accession number:	P.14808-R

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Wednesday 5 September 2018
updated:	Thursday 3 January 2019

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Etching on white laid paper. A head and shoulders self-portrait of painter, printmaker, writer and connossieur, Jonathan Richardson, the Elder, directed towards the left, head turned towards the viewer. He wears a shoulder-length powdered wig and a cravat at the neckline of his coat. This particular self-portrait was used as the frontispiece to the 1776 publication by James Dodsley of Richardson’s poems, which were written between 1732 and 1736 and published under the title _Morning Thoughts, or Poetical Meditations, Moral, Divine and Miscellaneous_. P.14808-R is a reduced state. P.14809-R is another impression of the same reduced state. See also the reduced state held at the British Museum: 1889,0409.350. The British Museum also holds impressions of earlier states; see Li,3.89 and Q,1.140.
title:	print

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: unknown

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225417





TECHNIQUES
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etching

CATEGORIES
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category: print

DATING
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creation date:	1738 - 1738
creation date earliest:	1738
creation date latest:	1738
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Richardson, Jonathan