Philip Stanhope, Viscount Mahon

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Artist/Maker	Watson, James (engraver) Ramsay, Allan (artist)
Place of origin	London (printed)

Portrait, full-length, facing slightly left but with eyes to front. The sitter is leaning on a table and holding a pencil and paper.

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Categories	Prints Portraits Scotland
Object type	Print
Title	Philip Stanhope, Viscount Mahon (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Mezzotint Mezzotint
Brief description	Print, full-length portrait of Philip Stanhope, Viscount Mahon, seated at a table and holding a pencil and paper. Mezzotint by James Watson after Allan Ramsay, 1764.
Physical description	Portrait, full-length, facing slightly left but with eyes to front. The sitter is leaning on a table and holding a pencil and paper.
Dimensions	Height: 33cm Width: 22.9cm Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959. London: HMSO, 1964.
Style	British School
Copy number	2nd state
Marks and inscriptions	'A. Ramsay pinxt. 1762. J. Watson fecit, 1764.' (Lettered in Latin with name of sitter, biographical notes etc. and) (Stamped with the mark of the collection of Joseph Gulston (Lugt 2986))
Credit line	Given by Mrs E. B. Westwood
Production	The original portrait was painted in 1762.
Subject depicted	Stanhope, Philip (Viscount Mahon)
Bibliographic reference	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.650-1959

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O568483/philip-stanhope-viscount-mahon-print-watson-james/

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