Portrait of James Watt
date: label: Date
content: 1819
name: label: Print Maker
content: William Nicholson, British, 1781 - 1844
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Half-length portrait of the Scottish inventor James Watt (1736-1819), shown seated at his desk, facing one quarter to the left, his gaze directed frontally. His left forearm rests on the arm of the chair. Books, pen, and drawings shown behind him.
place: label: made in
content: England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1957-148-37
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Plate: 27.2 × 21.8 cm (10 11/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Paper: 41.9 × 32.8 cm (16 1/2 × 12 15/16 in.)