George Lord Rodney OB.1792.From the original...in the Collection of the Right Honble The Earl of Egremont
A three-quarter-length portrait of George Bridges Rodney (bap. 1718, d. 1792) in flag officer’s full-dress uniform, 1767–1787, leaning his right hand on the fluke of an anchor in front of an overhanging cliff and a view of the sea. The portrait is surrounded by a decorative border, incorporating the sitter’s coat of arms at the top and the title at the bottom: ‘George Lord Rodney. OB 1792. From the original of Sir Joshua Reynolds in the Collection of the Right Honble. The Earl of Egremont.’ Also lettered with the production details and publication line: ‘Engraved by H. Robinson. / John Tallis & Company, London & New York.’ This portrait was engraved by John Henry Robinson after Joshua Reynolds’s oil painting of 1756–9. As the print’s inscription notes, Reynolds’s painting was in the collection of the Earl of Egremont at Petworth at the time of this engraving was made; it remains at Petworth today. This print was published by John Tallis and Co. It is a reprint, with added decorative border, from the plate published by Harding and Lepard and used as an illustration in Edmund Lodge’s ‘Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain’ (London: Harding and Lepard, 1832), volume 11 (see PAI8381). (Updated May 2019.)
Object Details
ID: | PAI8322 |
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Type: | |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | John Tallis & Co; Reynolds, Joshua Robinson, H. |
People: | Rodney, George Brydges |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Sheet: 277 x 186 mm; Plate: 186 x 156 mm |
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