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Engraver Charles Turner British
after Sir Joshua Reynolds British
Sitter Thomas Tomkins British
Not on view
Half-length portrait of the author and writing school master, Thomas Tomkins, seated at a small table with an inkstand, holding paper in his left hand and a quill pen in his right.
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Title: Thomas Tomkins
Engraver:
Charles Turner (British, Woodstock, Oxfordshire 1774–1857 London)
Artist:
after Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, Plympton 1723–1792 London)
Sitter:
Thomas Tomkins (British, 1743–1816 London)
Date: 1805
Medium: Mezzotint; first state of two
Dimensions:
Image: 11 7/8 × 9 13/16 in. (30.2 × 24.9 cm)
Plate: 13 15/16 × 10 in. (35.4 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 18 3/4 × 13 3/4 in. (47.6 × 34.9 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942
Object Number: 42.119.188
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