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- Title:
Omai
- Date:
- 1777
- Medium:
- Mezzotint, published state
- Dimensions:
- Plate: 24 1/2 x 15in. (62.2 x 38.1cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed below image at left, "Vol. 5 P. 261" Engraved inscriptions: below at left, "Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds"; below image at center "OMAJ"; below "A Native of the Island of Utietca."; below "LONDON. Published August 15th. 1777. by John Jacobi at Mrs Sledge's, Henrietta Street Covent Garden."; below image at right, "Engraved by John Jacobi"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.10146
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- portrait | river | tattoos | turban
- Associated People:
- Omai (c.1753–1780)
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:26168
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