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Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British, Laurence Sterne, A.M, 1760
- Title:
Laurence Sterne, A.M.
- Date:
- 1760
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 15/16 × 11 inches (37.9 × 27.9 cm), Image: 13 3/8 × 10 7/8 inches (34 × 27.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower left: "Born", lower center: "Died 1768"; inscribed in graphite, on back, upper right: "24"; lower left: "6"
Collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
Lettered, lower left: "J. Reynolds Pinx,,t"; lower center: "Laurence Sterne, A.M. | Prebendary of York, Vicar of Sutton on the Forest and of Stillington near York."; lower right: "E. Fisher fecit. | Pr. 5.s"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.12886
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- author | cloak | curls | desk | drapery | garter | gaze | gesturing | leg | mantle | papers | poet | portrait | posing | quills | robe | sitting | sleeves | smiling | Sterne, Laurence (1713–1768), writer and Church of England clergyman | vicar | wig
- Associated People:
- Sterne, Laurence (1713–1768), writer and Church of England clergyman
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38560
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