Smith (John Raphael, 1751-1812). Portrait of John Harrison surgeon of Derby, after Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), circa 1781, mezzotint on wove paper, half-length in three-quarter profile to left within oval frame, wearing plain dark vest, coat and white cravat, lettered with the title, and a quotation on friendship from a play by Plautus: 'Non invenies alterum Lepidiorem ad omnes res, nec qui amico sit magis', ('You will not find another more graceful in all things, nor one who is more of a friend'), and ‘Painted by J. Wright / Engraved by J.R. Smith’, plate size 375 x 275 mm (14 3/4 x 10 3/4 ins), some spotting and a few marginal closed tears to margins, sheet size 405 x 305 mm (16 x 12 ins), framed and glazed (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Private Collection Gloucestershire, UK. For the original oil portrait by Joseph Wright of Derby see preceding lot 45.
Smith (John Raphael, 1751-1812). Portrait of John Harrison surgeon of Derby, after Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), circa 1781, mezzotint on wove paper, half-length in three-quarter profile to left within oval frame, wearing plain dark vest, coat and white cravat, lettered with the title, and a quotation on friendship from a play by Plautus: 'Non invenies alterum Lepidiorem ad omnes res, nec qui amico sit magis', ('You will not find another more graceful in all things, nor one who is more of a friend'), and ‘Painted by J. Wright / Engraved by J.R. Smith’, plate size 375 x 275 mm (14 3/4 x 10 3/4 ins), some spotting and a few marginal closed tears to margins, sheet size 405 x 305 mm (16 x 12 ins), framed and glazed (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Private Collection Gloucestershire, UK. For the original oil portrait by Joseph Wright of Derby see preceding lot 45.
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