Augustus Montague Toplady
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Augustus Montague Toplady
after John Raphael Smith
1777
12 1/8 in. x 9 3/8 in. (308 mm x 238 mm)
NPG 3138
Inscriptionback to top
Inscribed, lower left, in ink: 355; verso, in ink: Rev Augustus Montague Toplady, A. B., and, in pencil: by J R Smith.
This portraitback to top
Apparently a contemporary copy from the portrait drawn and engraved by J. R. Smith published in 1777, [1] in which the book on the table is lettered Holy Bible.
Footnotesback to top
1) J. C. Smith, British Mezzotint Portraits, 164; J. Frankau, John Raphael Smith, 1902, no.351.
Provenanceback to top
Purchased from Appleby 1943.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
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