The Honorable Mount Stuart Elphinstone

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Artist/Maker	Turner, Charles (engraver) Lawrence, Thomas PRA (Sir) (artist) Simpson, John (artist)
Place of origin	Britain (printed)

Whole-length portrait, seated in a chair, to right and looking to front; resting right foot on a stool and holding a paper in left hand. On the left is a table with inkstand and paper, books beneath, one of which is lettered 'Affairs of India Vol. II. In the right background is a landscape.

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Categories	Prints Portraits
Object type	Print
Title	The Honorable Mount Stuart Elphinstone (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Mezzotint on paper Paper Mezzotint
Brief description	Print, whole-length portrait of Mounstuart Elphinstone seated in a chair. Mezzotint by Charles Turner, after a portrait by Thomas Lawrence and John Simpson, 1833.
Physical description	Whole-length portrait, seated in a chair, to right and looking to front; resting right foot on a stool and holding a paper in left hand. On the left is a table with inkstand and paper, books beneath, one of which is lettered 'Affairs of India Vol. II. In the right background is a landscape.
Dimensions	Cut to height: 70.6cm Cut to width: 46.9cm Measured by SH 20/05/2011.
Style	British School
Marks and inscriptions	'Engraved by C. Turner A.R.A. The Honorable Mount Stuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay From a Painting by Sir Thos Lawrence and Mr Simposon for the Bombay National Education Society 1833.' (Lettered)
Object history	The original portrait was begun in 1829 by Thomas Lawrence and completed after his death by John Simpson, an assistant.
Subjects depicted	Landscape Man Stool Chair Books Inkstand Elphinstone, Mountstuart
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	29752F

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O951373/the-honorable-mount-stuart-elphinstone-print-turner-charles/

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