IDENTIFIERS
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id:	240146
accession number:	P.15117-R

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 9 January 2020
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: After the painting by Henry Edward Dawe (c.1830; previously in the collection of Queen Adelaide). Full-length, William IV seated on a square-backed carved chair in a room with patterned carpet and damask brocade curtain behind and to the right with fringed hem and hanging tassells. He is turned slightly torwards the left looking out at the spectator and wears a dark, double-breasted coat with sash ribbon, the Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order (Hanoverian Guelphic Order) around his neck. The insignia of the Order of the Garter is pinned to his coat at the right, the garter worn around his left knee, which is crossed over his right. He holds a book in his lap, the pages marked by the first finger of his left hand. His right hand rests upon a letter signed 'William R' which is on a table to the left. A folded letter inscribed 'The King' is seen on the table beside a writing box containing inkwell with quill and sealing paraphenalia. A book with gilt-tooled decoration and a paper marker stands on the table to the right. At the far left, an open window gives a view onto a colonnaded building set in a landscape.
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: Given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1929-08

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240146





TECHNIQUES
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mezzotint

CATEGORIES
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category: print

DATING
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creation date:	1831 - 1831
creation date earliest:	1831
creation date latest:	1831
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Dawe, Henry Edward
maker: Dawe, Henry Edward
maker: Dawe, Henry Edward