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Charles Turner British
after Sir William Beechey British
Not on view
Half-length portrait of the actress Harriet Mellon, shown playing the character Volante in John Tobin's 1805 play, The Honeymoon.
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Title: Miss Mellon
Artist:
Charles Turner (British, Woodstock, Oxfordshire 1774–1857 London)
Artist:
after Sir William Beechey (British, Burford, Oxfordshire 1753–1839 Hampstead)
Date: 1806
Medium: Mezzotint; first state of two
Dimensions:
Image: 10 3/4 in. × 9 in. (27.3 × 22.9 cm)
Plate: 17 7/8 × 12 7/8 in. (45.4 × 32.7 cm)
Sheet: 18 7/16 × 13 1/4 in. (46.8 × 33.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Carl J. Ulmann, 1924
Accession Number: 24.57.109
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