Boy with a drawing in his hand: 'The Student' (after Sir Joshua Reynolds)
William Dickinson (c.1746/7 - 1823)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1 Dec 1786
Materials
Paper
Measurements
400 x 295 mm
Place of origin
Bond Street
Collection
Nunnington Hall, North Yorkshire
NT 979877
Summary
Print, mezzotint engraving Boy with a drawing in his hand: 'The Student' (after Sir Joshua Reynolds) by William Dickinson (London 1746 – Paris 1823). 1786. Portrait of a young boy, three quarter length, sitting looking at a drawing in his hands. On the table is a cast of recumbent Hercules. it is supposed to be a portrait of Master Brown.The original is in the Flint Institute of Art, Mitigan, USA.
Marks and inscriptions
279 (in pencil on reverse)
Makers and roles
William Dickinson (c.1746/7 - 1823), engraver (printmaker) after Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792), artist William Dickinson (c.1746/7 - 1823), engraver and publisher