1959.0098.043 Print and frame, view 1
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Print and frame (Mezzotint)

  • Title:

    Self-Portrait of Thomas Frye

  • Category:

    Prints and Maps

  • Creator (Role):

    Thomas Frye (Designer, draftsman and engraver)

  • Place of Origin:

    London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

  • Date:

    1760

  • Materials:

    Ink; Paper (laid); Cardboard

  • Techniques:

    Mezzotint

  • Museum Object Number:

    1959.0098.043


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Object Number

1959.0098.043

Object Name

Print and frame (Mezzotint)

Title

Self-Portrait of Thomas Frye

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

Thomas Frye (Designer, draftsman and engraver)
1710-04/02/1762
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.

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

1760

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left, within image; .TF. [intertwined]
2. Inscription; Lower center, within image; Ipse.
3. Inscription; Lower left, beneath image; T Frye Pictor Invt & Sculp
4. Inscription; Lower right, beneath image; Hatton Garden 1760.

Subjects

Portrait; Self-portrait

Materials

Ink; Paper (laid); Cardboard

Techniques

Mezzotint

Dimensions (inches)

20.4 (H) , 15.45 (W) , 18.7 (Image H) , 13.7 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

51.9 (H) , 39.25 (W) , 18.7 (Image H) , 13.7 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H at left. W at bottom. D at bottom left. Trimmed within platemark at bottom. Plate W: 13.9 in. (35.3 cm). Frame H: 22.9 in. (58.1 cm). Frame W: 17.8 in. (45.3 cm). Frame D: 1.3 in. (3.2 cm).

Publication Date

1760

Place of Publication

London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

State

I

Edition Notes

State I, rectangle. State II, altered to an oval.

Object Description

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Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[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. 2. 461-940.
Print listed as no.6, pp.518-519.