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- Title:
John Home, Esq.
- Additional Title(s):
John Home Esq.r, Author of the Tragedy of Douglas
- Date:
- 1799
- Medium:
- Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 17 1/16 × 11 7/8 inches (43.4 × 30.2 cm), Image: 13 1/4 × 10 1/16 inches (33.7 × 25.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on front, lower right: "Vol.3. P.173"
Lettered, in black ink, lower left under image: "H. Raeburn Pinx.t"; lower center under image: "From an Original Picture in the Possession of Professor Ferguson."; lower right under image: "A. Birrell Sculp.t"; lower center: "JOHN HOME ESQ.R | AUTHOR of the Tragedy of DOUGALS, &c. &c. ~. | To his Excellency Lord Adam Gordon, this Plate is with Permission dedicated, by his Lordship's | much obliged & grateful humble serv,,t | And.w Birrell | Pub: according to Act of Parliament, May 9,th 1799, by A: Birrell, No. 53, Rosoman Street, Clerkenwell."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.10005
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- buttons | chair | clouds | collar | cuffs | drapery | jackets, dinner | landscape | nobleman | portrait | trees | trousers | vest
- Associated People:
- Home, John (1722–1808), Church of Scotland minister and playwright
Gordon, Lord Adam (ca.1726–1801), army officer and politician - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:25804
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