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- Title:
Thomas Dawson, first Baron Dartrey (Later first Viscount Cremorne)
- Former Title(s):
Thomas Dawson, 1st Baron Dartrey (Later 1st Viscount Cremorne)
A bust of a nobleman; in marble. [1772, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1771
- Medium:
- Carrara marble on an original oval socle
- Dimensions:
- Overall: 21 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches, 110 lb. (54.6 × 41.9 × 24.1 cm, 49.9 kg)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Chiseled on the reverse above socle, proper right, and with traces of black pigment: "J. Wilton Sculpt."
Chiselled within a circular band around an armorial cartouche on the front of the socle, surmounted with a Baron’s coronet: "THOMAS LORD DARTREY".
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.33
- Classification:
- Sculptures
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Subject Terms:
- banyan | gaze | grief | landowner | lord lieutenant | man | portrait | sorrow
- Associated People:
- Dawson, Thomas, 1st Baron Dartrey (later 1st Viscount Cremorne), 1725–1813
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1478
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