Joshua Sharpe

License this image

To license this image or for more information please contact our Licensing team.

We can manage your request more quickly if you include the following information:

Image reference number: XXX
Title and author (if applicable)
Publisher/Producer/Broadcaster
Planned release date
Print run or number of units
Image size and position, example 1/4 page, full screen, front cover, inside
Languages/territorial distribution
Digital rights - format details and license period

We don’t have an image of this object online yet. V&A Images may have a photograph that we can’t show online, but it may be possible to supply one to you. Email us at vaimages@vam.ac.uk for guidance about fees and timescales, quoting the accession number: E.398-1959

Find out about our images

Request to view at the Prints & Drawings Study Room, level D , Case PP, Shelf 58

Artist/Maker	Hodges, Charles Howard (engraver) Smith, John Raphael (publisher) Reynolds, Joshua (Sir) (artist)
Place of origin	London (published)

Portrait of Joshua Sharpe, seated, wearing a powdered wig, resting his right arm on a table and facing slightly left. In the left background, partly concealed by a curtain, are bookshelves. On the table are papers and an inkstand.

Object details

Categories	Prints Portraits
Object type	Print
Title	Joshua Sharpe (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Mezzotint Mezzotint
Brief description	Print, portrait of Joshua Sharpe, mezzotint by Charles Howard Hodges after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1786.
Physical description	Portrait of Joshua Sharpe, seated, wearing a powdered wig, resting his right arm on a table and facing slightly left. In the left background, partly concealed by a curtain, are bookshelves. On the table are papers and an inkstand.
Dimensions	Height: 49.8cm Width: 35.2cm Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959. London: HMSO, 1964.
Style	British School
Marks and inscriptions	'Painted by Sr. Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. Engraved by C. H. Hodges. London Publish'd Jany. 18; 1786: by J. R. Smith, N: 83: Oxford Street.' (Lettered with name of sitter, dedication etc. and)
Credit line	Given by Mrs E. B. Westwood
Production	3rd state. The original portrait by Reynolds was painted before 1786.
Subjects depicted	Inkstand Bookshelves Books Sharpe, Joshua
Bibliographic references	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 . London: HMSO, 1964. Smith, John Chaloner. British Mezzotinto Portraits. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.398-1959

About this object record

Explore the Collections contains over a million catalogue records, and over half a million images. It is a working database that includes information compiled over the life of the museum. Some of our records may contain offensive and discriminatory language, or reflect outdated ideas, practice and analysis. We are committed to addressing these issues, and to review and update our records accordingly.

You can write to us to suggest improvements to the record.

Suggest feedback

Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O568733/joshua-sharpe-print-hodges-charles-howard/

Download as: JSON

License this image

Download image

Object details

About this object record

You may also like