George Lord Rodney. OB. 1792. From the original...in the Collection of the Earl of Egremont
A three-quarter-length portrait of George Bridges Rodney (bap. 1718, d. 1792) in flag officer’s full-dress uniform, 1767–1787, leaning his right hand on the fluke of an anchor in front of an overhanging cliff and a view of the sea. Lettered beneath the image with the title: ‘George Lord Rodney. OB 1792. From the original of Sir Joshua Reynolds in the Collection of the Right Honble. The Earl of Egremont.’ Also lettered with the production details and publication line: ‘Engraved by H. Robinson. London. Published July 1 1831, by Harding and Lepard, Pall Mall East.’ This portrait was engraved by John Henry Robinson after Joshua Reynolds’s oil painting of 1756–9. As the print’s inscription notes, Reynolds’s painting was in the collection of the Earl of Egremont at Petworth at the time of this engraving was made; it remains at Petworth today. This print was published by Harding and Lepard on 1 July 1831 and as an illustration in Edmund Lodge’s ‘Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain’ (London: Harding and Lepard, 1832), volume 11. (Updated May 2019.)
Object Details
ID: | PAI8381 |
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Type: | |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Harding & Lepard; Reynolds, Joshua Robinson, H. |
Date made: | 1 Jul 1778; 1 Jul 1831 |
People: | Rodney, George Brydges |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Sheet: 257 x 177 mm; Plate: 131 x 102 mm |