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John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811, Irish, William Robertson, 1772
- Title:
William Robertson
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres
- Date:
- 1772
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 3/8 inches (53 × 39.1 cm), Plate: 19 7/8 × 14 inches (50.5 × 35.6 cm), Image: 18 13/16 × 13 15/16 inches (47.8 × 35.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower center: "Dr Robertson"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "Vol.5 P.286"
Lettered, lower left: "Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx"; lettered, lower right: "J.Disox fecit."; lettered, lower center: "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament November 1st 1772 | Sold by J.Boydell Cheapside, J.Hooper Ludgate Hill [?] Bradford Fleet Street [Bursford] Bridge Street Westminster J Dixon Kempes Row opposite Renelagh Walk Chelsea"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.10197
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- books | chair | curtain | historian | inkwell | man | paper | portrait | quills | religious and mythological subject | tippet | wig
- Associated People:
- Robertson, William (1721–1793), cleric/religious official, academic/intellectual
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:26221
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