Museum Object Number1954.0048.001 A |
Print on glass
His Most Sacred Majesty GEORGE the III. King of Great Britain, &c.
Prints and Maps
Gift of Henry Francis du Pont
Richard Purcell (Mezzotinter)
Thomas Frye (Draftsman)
William Pether (Mezzotinter)
Henry Parker & Elizabeth Bakewell (Publisher)
References: Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, vol. 3, p. 1008.Frye was works manager at Bow China Works, 1744-59. His name, along with Bow clothing merchant Edward Heylin, appears on the first patent to produce porcelain at Bow, applied for on December 6, 1744, and enrolled on April 5, 1745, as well as the second patent (without Heylin) applied for on November 17, 1748 and enrolled on March 17, 1748. His epitaph credits him as "the inventor and first manufacturer of porcelain in England", but this is doubtful. References: Chaloner-Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, vol. 2, p. 516; A History of the County of Middlesex, vol. 2 (1911), pp. 146-50. His obituary appears in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1764.
c.17361710c. 17381750
c.176604/02/176218211775
London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
1762-1766
1. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; T. FRYE, ad vivum delineavit.
2. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; R. PURCELL, fecit.
George III; Monarchs and nobility
Ink; Paper (laid); Oil paint; Glass
Mezzotint, Engraving, Painted
14.29 (H) , 10.5 (W) , 12.28 (Image H) , 9.92 (Image W)
36.3 (H) , 26.7 (W) , 12.28 (Image H) , 9.92 (Image W)
Henry Parker & Elizabeth Bakewell
Opposite Birchin Lane, Cornhill, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
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[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 49, pp. 101-2.
[Book] Smith, John Chaloner. 1884 British Mezzotinto Portraits; Being a Descriptive Catalogue of These Engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the early part of the present century. 3. 941-1428.
• Source for Purcell listed under Pether: nos. 17-19, p. 984; portrait not listed under Frye or Purcell.