Right Honorable Francis Rawdon Hastings
Date unknown
Medium
Lithograph on paper laid on paper
Dimensions
Image: 15 × 12 cm (5 15/16 × 4 3/4 in.); Sheet: 30 × 22.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
Classification
reproduction
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
274398
Art Historical Context
This lithograph portrait presents the Right Honorable Francis Rawdon Hastings, a distinguished British statesman and military figure of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Created by John Kirby Baldrey on paper laid on paper, the small-scale image measures just 15 by 12 centimeters and demonstrates the delicate tonal effects possible with lithography. As a reproduction classified within the Art Institute of Chicago’s Prints and Drawings department, the work reflects the period’s growing interest in making portraits of notable individuals accessible to a broader audience through...