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- Title:
The Right Honorable William Pitt
- Date:
- 1799
- Medium:
- Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 29 7/8 × 21 3/8 inches (75.9 × 54.3 cm), Sheet: 20 1/4 × 15 1/4 inches (51.4 × 38.7 cm), Image: 17 3/8 × 13 3/8 inches (44.1 × 34 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in red crayon, on mount, upper left: "K. 17. P.CXXXVI"; upper right: "F. 86". Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "2v-c 890 V (of 6)"
Lettered below image, lower left: "Gainsborough Dupont pinxit.; lower center: "Pubd. Jany of 1799 by B.B. Evans corner of the Old Jewry London."; lower right: "F. Bartolozzi R.A. Historical Engraver to his Magesti, sculps. 1790"; lower center: "The Right Honble: William Pitt, | First Lord Commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury, And Chancellor of the Exchequer." Within crest, lower center: "Benalgno Numine"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.19580
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:37430
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Joanna Marschner, Enlightened Princesses : Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn, 2017, p. 301, fig. 16.30, NX543 +.E55 2017 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]