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The Right Honble. Lord Viscount Duncan

Print
1 March 1798 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Portrait, three-quarter-length, standing on the deck of a warship and facing half left; holding a sword in left hand, the right placed on a cannonl a burning Dutch warship in left background.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleThe Right Honble. Lord Viscount Duncan (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Mezzotint
Brief description
Print, portrait of Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, mezzotint by Richard Earlom after John Singleton Copley, 1798.
Physical description
Portrait, three-quarter-length, standing on the deck of a warship and facing half left; holding a sword in left hand, the right placed on a cannonl a burning Dutch warship in left background.
Dimensions
  • Height: 50.8cm
  • Width: 35.9cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959. London: HMSO, 1964.
Style
Marks and inscriptions
'Painted by J. S. Copley, R.A. Engraved by R. Earlom. Published & Sold March, 1, 1798, by J. S. Copley, George Street, Hanover Square. The Right Honble. Lord Viscount Duncan &c. &c. &c. Admiral of the Blue and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships in the North Sea at the Defeat of the Dutch Fleet, on the 11th of October, 1797.' (Lettered with name of sitter etc. and)
Credit line
Given by Mrs. E. B. Westwood
Subjects depicted
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. Vol. 1, p.247.
  • Wessely, Joseph Edward. Richard Earlom. Hamburg: Haendcke & Lehmkuhl, 1886. 1 p.l., viii, 94 p.
Collection
Accession number
E.332-1959

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