Print made by Charles Heath, 1785–1848, British, Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy of London, 1818
- Title:
Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy of London
- Date:
- 1818
- Medium:
- Etching, stipple engraving and line engraving on thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet (cropped inside plate): 14 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (36.8 x 26.4 cm) and Image: 8 11/16 x 6 inches (22 x 15.3 cm)
- 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"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of James B. Richardson, Jr., B.A. 1957
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1994.4.1135
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- artist | book | cravat | drapery | gaze | glasses, eye | history painter | man | old | painter | portrait | president | robe | solemn
- Associated People:
- West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain
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