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Goobi
Mezzotint portrait on paper of an old man in profile wearing a velvet cap and holding spectacles in his right hand 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'. Annotated below ‘W[illiam]. Pether the artist?’
Frye moved from Ireland to London when he was 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. But it is for these life-sized mezzotint prints, produced in the final years of his life, that he is primarily remembered.
Old man wearing velvet cap
Wep 4173.1
Wep_4173_1
Western Prints and Drawings collection
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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Approved Material 2018/Organic/Plant (material)/Plant fibre/Paper (material)
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GOOD
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665 mm x 473 mm (height x width)
Life-sized heads, first series
art
Frye, Thomas
Frye, Thomas
London
Chester Beatty Library
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