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Object Type: print
Museum number: Q,1.127
Title: Object: Dnus Hans Sloane
Description: Portrait, bust in oval, directed three-quarter to left, wearing long wig and lace cravat, looking towards the viewer; after Murray; proof before letters. 1728 Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: John Faber the Younger; After: Thomas Murray
School/style: British
Production date: 1728
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 352 millimetres; Width: 250 millimetres
Bibliographic references: Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (329); Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (329.I)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: Sir Hans Sloane
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (probably)
Acquisition date: 1799
Acquisition notes: with Philipe's oval blindstamp but with the initials washed out; as a proof, probably from Cracherode
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Q,1.127

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