Self-Portrait

1760

Thomas Frye

Artist, Irish, 1710 - 1762

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 50.5 x 35.2 cm (19 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 52 x 37 cm (20 1/2 x 14 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1992.24.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Smith 1884, no. 6, State only

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1995

  • Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Bibliography

1884

  • Smith, John Chaloner. British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century. 4 vols. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1884.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: .TF.; lower center in plate: .Ipse.; lower left in plate: T, Frye Pictor Inv,t & Sculp; lower right in plate: Hatton Garden 1760.

Wikidata ID

Q75118219

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