Ipse (Self-Portrait)
Thomas Frye, Irish, 1710 - 1762
1760
Mezzotint on laid paper
Plate: 19 7/8 × 13 7/8 in. (50.5 × 35.2 cm)
Sheet: 20 1/8 × 15 1/8 in. (51.1 × 38.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from the Cremer Foundation in memory of J. Theodore Cremer
2006.53
Printer
Thomas Frye
Publisher
Thomas Frye
Geography
Place Made: Ireland, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Initialed, in plate, lower left: .TF.; inscribed, in plate, lower center: .Ipse. [Latin meaning "self"]; in plate, lower left: T, Frye Pictor Inv,t & Sculp; lower right: Hatton Garden 1760
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012
REL 60, Reformations: Protestant and Catholic, Catherine Randall, Fall 2013
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014
ARTH 17.2, FILM 50, When Media Were New, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2014
HUM 1, Dialogue with the Classics, Andrea Tarnowski, Spring 2019
HUM 1.02/HUM 1.03/HUM 1.04, Dialogues with the Classics, Carolyn Dever, Paul Carranza, Antonia Gomez, Fall 2019
HUM 1.05/HUM 1.06/HUM 1.07, Dialogues with the Classics, Klaus Mladek, Michelle Clarke, Andrea Tarnowski, Fall 2019
First Year Student Enrichment Program, John Pfister, Summer 2021
Exhibition History
The Artful Disposition of Shades: The Great Age of English Mezzotints, Owen Robertson Cheatham and Friends Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19 through March 14, 2010.
Publication History
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 164-165, ill. p.165, no. 98.
T.Barton Thurber, The Artful Disposition of Shades: The Great Age of English Mezzotints, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, Capital Offset Company Inc., 2010, ill, p. 8, fig. 7, checklist p. 21.
Provenance
Hill-Stone, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2006.
Catalogue Raisonne
Smith 6 (only state); Russel 6
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