IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240148 accession number: P.15118-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2020 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The first plate by Turner after the second of Reynolds' group portraits of the Society, known as the 'gem' picture (1777-9; Mannings, 511; The Society of Dilettanti, London). Seven men sitting or standing around a table with a curtain behind to the right and columns with entablature behind and to the left. Several round pieces of fruit, wine glasses and bottles are on the table. Seated at the far left, Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Lord Mulgrave gestures over his shoulder towards Thomas, Lord Dundas, standing, who holds a gem up to the light between the thumb and forefinger of his right hand. Lord Seaforth, seated to the right, looks at a ring held in his right hand. Charles Greville, almost in profile to the right, raises a full glass of wine together with John Charles Crowle and the Duke of Leeds. Sir Joseph Banks seated at the far right is viewed in profile and examines a ring held outwards into the centre of the table. title: print NOTES ----- type: history note value: A curatorial inscription in Eric Chamberlain's hand written into Hamilton states that this print came into the Fitzwilliam collection framed as one of a pair with a framed impression of the second plate of the Dilettanti Society by Say after Reynolds, both 'provenance unknown'. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240148 TECHNIQUES ---------- mezzotint CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Turner, Charles maker: Reynolds, Joshua