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Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British, Laurence Sterne, A.M, 1760
- Title:
- Laurence Sterne, A.M.
- Date:
- 1760
- Materials & Techniques:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 5/8 x 11 3/4 inches (39.7 x 29.9 cm), Plate: 14 15/16 x 10 13/16 inches (38 x 27.5 cm), Image: 13 5/16 x 10 7/8 inches (33.8 x 27.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "L/m"; lower left: "Vol 6 P 319";, on back, upper left: "100"; lower left: "(design)"; lower right: "This print is [...] and [...] | being an impression before the Plate was reduced | 111 for 176/crease 15/"
Lettered, lower left: "J. Reynolds Pinx,,t"; lower center: "Laurence Sterne, A.M. | Prebendary of York, Vicar of Sutton on the Forest and of Stillington near York."; lower right: "E. Fisher fecit. | Pr. 5.s"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.10260
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- author | cloak | curls | desk | drapery | garter | gaze | gesturing | leg | mantle | papers | poet | portrait | posing | quills | robe | sitting | sleeves | smiling | Sterne, Laurence (1713–1768), writer and Church of England clergyman | vicar | wig
- Associated People:
- Sterne, Laurence (1713–1768), writer and Church of England clergyman
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:26317
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