G B Rodney
State without publication line. A half-length portrait of George Bridges Rodney (bap. 1718, d. 1792) in flag officer’s undress uniform, 1748–1767. Lettered beneath the image with a facsimile of the sitter’s signature. This print was engraved in 1840 for E. H. Maxwell (ed.), ‘The Naval and Military Almanac’ (London: A. H. Baily & Co., 1840), February, opposite page 10, alongside a biography of the sitter. The portrait is after Joshua Reynolds’s oil painting of 1756–9, now at Petworth. (Updated May 2019.)
Object Details
ID: | PAI9672 |
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Type: | |
Display location: | Not on display |
People: | Rodney, George Brydges |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Overall: 162 x 103 mm |