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Mezzotint self-portrait on paper of Thomas Frye, his right hand resting on a drawing board and holding a porte-crayon, from the first of two series of life-sized heads designed, engraved and published by Thomas Frye (1710-1762) in London between 1760 and 1762. The first series was advertised as, 'Twelve heads drawn from nature and as large of life', and the second, 'Six ladies in picturesque attitudes' or, 'Ladies, very elegantly attired in the fashions, and in the most agreeable attitudes'. Frye moved from Ireland to London when he in his twenties. He made a career as a portraitist in oils and pastel, miniature painter and founder of the Bow porcelain factory with Edward Heyleyn. It is for these life-sized mezzotint prints, produced in the final years of his life, that he is primarily remembered.
Thomas Frye
Wep 4178.26
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Western Prints and Drawings collection
English (Language)
Approved Category 2017/Printed Material/Print/Intaglio Print/Engraving/Mezzotint
Approved Place 2018/Europe/United Kingdom/Great Britain/England/Greater London/London
Mezzotint
1760
1760
1760
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Paper (material)
Ink (material)
502 mm x 350 mm (height x width)
art
Frye, Thomas
Frye, Thomas
London
Chester Beatty Library
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