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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 368222, member: 56&quot;]I recently got this portrait engraving of the engraver Valentine Green (1739-1813).&nbsp; It’s by another engraver named James Fittler (1758-1835) after a portrait by Lemuel Francis Abbot (1760/61-1802).&nbsp; All of these people were well enough known in their time.</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s the portrait page from book published by Green in 1796 and illustrated with his own engravings.&nbsp; The image is 4 ¼” across and is dated 1795.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]126267[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Detail of the cravat</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]126268[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I like that this is from a book of Green’s engravings, yet he did not engrave this.&nbsp; Fittler (who was engraver to the King) copied a painting of Green by a society painter of the day (usual practice).&nbsp; There’s just something convoluted about the whole thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>(And I love that his lapel is frayed.)</p><p><br /></p><p>If Green had engraved his own portrait from the painting by Abbot, would that be a self-portrait?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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