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, English, 1667-1745
Title
Self-Portrait
Date1738
MediumEtching
Dimensions
Sheet: 22.8 x 19 cm
Plate: 20.1 x 14.4 cm
Credit LinePresented, Brian Lalor Print Collection, 2014
Object numberNGI.2014.44
DescriptionJonathan Richardson was a successful portrait painter and influential collector of old master drawings. He wrote extensively on art and was widely read during his own lifetime. Towards the end of his life, Richardson made a series of self-portraits depicting himself in a wig or turban or with closely-cropped hair. In this informal portrait Richardson portrays himself as an intellectual of the Enlightenment.
Inscriptionlower right (in plate): J. Richardson. 1738