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Charles Ashton D.D.

Print
1750-1765 (printed)
Artist/Maker
John Ryall & Robert Withy (publisher)
McArdell, James (engraver)
Pyle, Robert (artist)
Place of origin
London (printed)

Portrait, three-quarter-length, seated, facing slightly left; wearing black clerical vestments and bands and a powdered wig. The sitter rests his right arm on table decorated with scrollwork and shell patterns.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleCharles Ashton D.D. (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Mezzotint
Mezzotint
Brief description
Print, portrait of the Reverend Charles Ashton, mezzotint by James McArdell after Robert Pyle, 1750-1765.
Physical description
Portrait, three-quarter-length, seated, facing slightly left; wearing black clerical vestments and bands and a powdered wig. The sitter rests his right arm on table decorated with scrollwork and shell patterns.
Dimensions
  • Height: 35.2cm
  • Width: 25.1cm
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
'R. Pyle Pinxt. Js McArdell fecit. London Printed for John Ryall & Robt. Withy at Hogarth's Head, Fleet Street.' (Lettered with name of sitter etc. and)
Credit line
Given by Mrs E. B. Westwood
Subjects depicted
Clergyman
Robes
Ashton, Charles
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 . London: HMSO, 1964.
  • O'Donoghue, Freeman. British Museum: Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1908-25.
  • Goodwin, Gordon. James McArdell. London: A. H. Bullen, 1903. 168 p.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.445-1959

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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