Self-Portrait, 1760

Not on View

series Title

Life-Size Heads: First Series

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Smith 1884, no. 6, State only

Accession Number

1992.24.1

Artists / Makers

Thomas Frye (artist) Irish, 1710 - 1762

Image Use

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Inscription

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.

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.