Sir Joshua Reynolds
Medium
Etching and engraving on chine collé
Dimensions
Plate: 11 9/16 × 9 15/16 in. (29.4 × 25.3 cm) Sheet: 18 1/8 × 13 1/8 in. (46 × 33.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947
Accession Number
47.100.615
Tags
About the Artist
Sir Joshua Reynolds|John Keyse Sherwin|Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1723–1792
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) was a British painter who became the dominant figure in eighteenth-century British art and the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts. Born in Plympton, Devon, he studied under the portrait painter Thomas Hudson in London, and a transformative visit to Italy (1749–52) — where he studied the Old Masters, particularly the Venetian colorists and Michelangelo — sh...