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Title
Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy of London
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Date
1818
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Materials & Techniques
Etching, stipple engraving and line engraving on thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
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Dimensions
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 3/8 inches (36.8 × 26.4 cm), Image: 8 11/16 × 6 inches (22 × 15.3 cm)
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Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering
Lettered, lower left: "W. J. Newton pinx,,t"; lower center: "BENJAMIN WEST, ESQ.R | PRESIDENT | OF THE | ROYAL ACADEMY OF LONDON: | Dedicated to the Directors of the British Institution, | by their ob,,t Serv,,t | William Johnstone White | Published Jany 1st 1818, by W. J. White, 14 Brownlow Street, Holborn, London.'; lower right: C. Heath Sct"
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of James B. Richardson, Jr., B.A. 1957
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Copyright Status
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Accession Number
B1994.4.1135
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Classification
Prints
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Collection
Prints and Drawings
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Subject Terms
artist | book | cravat | drapery | gaze | glasses, eye | history painter | man | old | painter | portrait | president | robe | solemn
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Associated People
Royal Academy | West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain
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Access
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
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