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Description: | bound volume (dimensions 54 x 38 x 6) inscr. on plate below image "The Right Honble Sr. Tho. Bury, Knight / Lord Cheif Baron of his Majesties Court / of Exchequer."; inscr. on plate b.l. "J. Richardson pinx. 1719"; inscr. on plate b.r. "J. Smith fec et exc 1720"; inscr. on page t.r. hand-written in brown ink "89" CRE SMITH, John; (English; 1652-1743) AFTER RICHARDSON, Jonathan; (English; 1665-1745) PUB SMITH, John; (English; 1652-1743) Part of William Hunter's original bequest, this is one of three volumes which together contain 488 mezzotints, almost all made or published by John Smith. About two thirds are portraits of eminent late Stuart, early Hanoverian persons, and one third fancy and mythological subjects.
Instrumental in raising the standard of mezzotint portraits, Smith was the first British printmaker to gain a European reputation, and examples of his work were essential for any serious early to mid 18th century European print collection.
Hunter's set of volumes is a rare surviving example of a comprehensive collection of mezzotints compiled in the 1730s.
The original portrait was by painter, writer and collector Jonathan Richardson who trained under John Riley and became one of the leading portrait painters of the day.
Sir Thomas Bury was a judge, He was knighted and made Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1701. He was elected to the Royal Society the year before Richardson painted his portrait. The print is included in the volume among a group of men of achievements in the worlds of medicine, art, literature, science or the military toward the end of volume one. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : HALF-LENGTH : ALBUM : WIG : OVAL : CHIEF : SIR : BARON : COURT OF THE EXCHEQUER : VOLUME : HUNTER VOLUME : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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