Joseph Sidney Yorke

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Artist/Maker	Green, Valentine (engraver) Boydell, John (publisher) Katherine Rad (artist)
Place of origin	London (published)

Portrait of Sidney Yorke, when a young boy, stroking a dog. Three-quarter-length, standing and facing slightly left within a plain oval border.

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Categories	Prints Portraits Children & Childhood Scotland
Object type	Print
Title	Joseph Sidney Yorke (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Mezzotint Mezzotint
Brief description	Print, portrait of Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke, when a child, mezzotint by Valentine Green after Catherine Read, 1772
Physical description	Portrait of Sidney Yorke, when a young boy, stroking a dog. Three-quarter-length, standing and facing slightly left within a plain oval border.
Dimensions	Height: 45.4cm Width: 32.7cm 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	'Cath. Read pinxit. Val Green fecit. John Boydell excudit. Published Feby. 17th. 1772 by John Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside London.' (Lettered with name of sitter etc. and)
Credit line	Given by Mrs E. B. Westwood
Subjects depicted	Dog Children Yorke, Joseph Sydney (Sir)
Bibliographic references	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 . London: HMSO, 1964. Whitman, Alfred. Valentine Green. London: A. H. Bullen, 1902. 204 p. Smith, John Chaloner. British Mezzotinto Portraits. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.388-1959

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O568743/joseph-sidney-yorke-print-green-valentine/

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