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Slender: P.14844-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Slender

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Favell, John
Designer: attributed to

Entities

Categories

Description

Etching on paper. Half-length portrait in profile facing right of a tall gentleman with a large nose, wearing a buckled wig. Three brass buttons are visible on his coat and he wears a neck-band which emphasises his long neck. Title in scratched letters on the plate at lower centre: 'Slender'. The print has been trimmed to within the platemark and then laid down on a secondary support of white paper, a border in pen and ink drawn around and an inscription below: 'Favell - painter at Cambridge'. An inscription in graphite on the artist's board below: '?John Favill d.1804 aged 64'. This is possibly a representation of the character, Slender, from Shakespeare's _Merry Wives of Windsor_. It is not known if the portrait resembles John Favell, painter, of Cambridge. See Notes.

Legal notes

Unknown

Acquisition and important dates

by unknown

Note

Height 115mm (cut within platemark) x 90mm (cut within platemark)

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14844-R
Primary reference Number: 225453
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 Updated: Monday 7 January 2019 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) "Slender" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225453 Accessed: 2024-11-08 23:04:03

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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225453 |title=Slender |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-08 23:04:03|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

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