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- Title:
Colonel Tarleton
- Former Title(s):
Tarleton, Colonel, later Sir Banastre, Bt (1754-1833)
- Date:
- 1782
- Medium:
- Mezzotint, engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 25 3/16 × 16 1/4 inches (64 × 41.2 cm), Plate: 25 1/2 × 15 9/16 inches (64.8 × 39.6 cm), Image: 24 3/4 × 15 9/16 inches (62.9 × 39.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "ex [..] Proof [...]"
Lettered below image, lower left : "Painted by S. Joshua Reynolds | Publish'd Octo 11 1782 by JR Smith No. 23."; center: "Col. Tarleton"; lower right: "Engraved by J.R. Smith | opposite the Pantheon Oxford Street London"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.263
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Associated People:
- Tarleton, Sir Banastre, baronet (1754–1833), army officer and politician
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:21751
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