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John Smart, Portrait of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, 1792, watercolor on ivory, sight: 2 11/16 x 2 3/16 in. (6.8 x 5.6 cm), framed: 3 3/16 x 2 7/16 in. (8.1 x 6.2 cm), Gift of the Starr Foundation, Inc., F65-41/33
John Smart, Portrait of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (verso), 1792, watercolor on ivory, sight: 2 11/16 x 2 3/16 in. (6.8 x 5.6 cm), framed: 3 3/16 x 2 7/16 in. (8.1 x 6.2 cm), Gift of the Starr Foundation, Inc., F65-41/33
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John Smart, Portrait of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, 1792

Artist John Smart (English, 1741–1811)
Title Portrait of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Object Date 1792
Medium Watercolor on ivory
Setting Gilt metal bezel
Dimensions Sight: 2 11/16 x 2 3/16 in. (6.8 x 5.6 cm)
Framed: 3 3/16 x 2 7/16 in. (8.1 x 6.2 cm)
Inscription Inscribed on recto, lower left: “JS / 1792 / I”
Inscribed in later hand on verso: “Charles / 2nd Earl of / Cornwallis”
Credit Line Gift of the Starr Foundation, Inc., F65-41/33

doi: 10.37764/8322.5.1598

Scholarly research and commentary to be published in 2025.

 

John Smart, Portrait of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, 1792, watercolor on ivory, sight: 2 11/16 x 2 3/16 in. (6.8 x 5.6 cm), framed: 3 3/16 x 2 7/16 in. (8.1 x 6.2 cm), Gift of the Starr Foundation, Inc., F65-41/33
John Smart, Portrait of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (verso), 1792, watercolor on ivory, sight: 2 11/16 x 2 3/16 in. (6.8 x 5.6 cm), framed: 3 3/16 x 2 7/16 in. (8.1 x 6.2 cm), Gift of the Starr Foundation, Inc., F65-41/33
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