The Reverend T.N. Toller
Relief
1814 (Made)
1814 (Made)
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Reverend Thomas Toller is shown in profile to the left, clean shaven and dressed in ecclesiastical robes with short hair curled over his shirt.
An inscription on the reverse records that Toller was Reverend of Kettering in 1814.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, low relief portraits in wax became popular in Britain and they were often exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of Artists and elsewhere. Waxes were used in a similar way to prints and medals, in order to disseminate the image of the sitter, or, like miniature paintings or silhouettes as portable mementoes.
An inscription on the reverse records that Toller was Reverend of Kettering in 1814.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, low relief portraits in wax became popular in Britain and they were often exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of Artists and elsewhere. Waxes were used in a similar way to prints and medals, in order to disseminate the image of the sitter, or, like miniature paintings or silhouettes as portable mementoes.
Object details
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| Title | The Reverend T.N. Toller |
| Materials and techniques | Wax in giltwood frame |
| Brief description | Relief, wax, English, by T.R. Poole, 1814. |
| Physical description | The profile relief, in pink wax on black glass, of an the Reverend Toller is shown facing to the left. Clean shaven with short hair curled over his shirt, he is shown dressed in ecclesiastical robes. |
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| Credit line | From the Mary Bate Collection. |
| Object history | From the Mary Bate Collection, ex. loan 43. Bought from Philip Bate for £100. |
| Summary | Reverend Thomas Toller is shown in profile to the left, clean shaven and dressed in ecclesiastical robes with short hair curled over his shirt. An inscription on the reverse records that Toller was Reverend of Kettering in 1814. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, low relief portraits in wax became popular in Britain and they were often exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of Artists and elsewhere. Waxes were used in a similar way to prints and medals, in order to disseminate the image of the sitter, or, like miniature paintings or silhouettes as portable mementoes. |
| Bibliographic reference | Pyke, E.J. A Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers, Oxford, 1973, p. 113. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | A.35-1970 |
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| Record created | March 18, 2004 |
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