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- Title:
Rev. John Caspar Lavater (1787-1801)
- Additional Title(s):
Rev. John Caspar Lavater of Zurich. Born 1741. Died 1801.
- Date:
- 1800
- Medium:
- Line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 3/8 × 11 9/16 inches (36.5 × 29.4 cm), Image: 10 1/16 × 8 3/8 inches (25.6 × 21.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "40."; lower right: "Fine | Blake"
Lettered, in black ink, lower right (below image): "Blake Sculp.t"; lower center: "REV. JOHN CASPAR LAVATER. | of Zurich. Born 1741. Died 1801. | Pub.d May 1. 1800 by J. Johnson, in Saint Paul's Church Yard. London. from a Drawing in his [pssession, taken in 1787~"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.484
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cap | coats | cravat | curls | engraving (printing process) | man | nose | oval | portrait | profile | reverend | theologian
- Associated People:
- Lavater, John Caspar (1741–1801), theologian
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:6140
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