Joseph Blackburn, 1754 - Mary Sylvester - fine art print

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In the year 1754 the male painter Joseph Blackburn painted the painting. The 260 year-old version of the work of art was made with the size: 49 7/8 x 40 in (126,7 x 101,6 cm). Oil on canvas was applied by the European artist as the medium of the painting. Furthermore, this piece of art belongs to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Sylvester Dering, 1916 (public domain). Creditline of the artwork: Gift of Sylvester Dering, 1916. The alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width.

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• Canvas: The canvas print, not to be mistaken with an artwork painted on a canvas, is a digital replica printed directly on canvas material. Canvas prints are relatively low in weight, meaning that it is easy to hang the Canvas print without extra wall-mounts. Therefore, canvas prints are suited for all kinds of walls.
• Aluminium dibond: An Aluminium Dibond print is a print with an impressive depth effect, which makes a contemporary look with a non-reflective surface structure. A direct Direct Print on Aluminum Dibond is your ideal start to fine art prints made on aluminum.
• Poster (canvas material): A poster is a UV printed cotton canvas with a slightly rough texture on the surface, that resembles the actual masterpiece. A poster print is qualified for framing the art copy using a customized frame. Please note, that depending on the absolute size of the canvas poster print we add a white margin 2-6 cm round about the painting, which facilitates the framing.
• Acrylic glass print: An print on acrylic glass, which is sometimes described as a UV print on plexiglass, makes your favorite artwork into beautiful wall decoration. Your favorite artwork is custom-made with the help of modern UV direct print technology. Our real glass coating protects your custom art replica against light and heat for decades.

Important information: We try our utmost in order to depict our art products as clearly as possible and to exhibit them visually. Although, the tone of the print materials and the printing might vary marginally from the presentation on the screen. Depending on your settings of your screen and the condition of the surface, colors might not be printed one hundret percent realistically. Bearing in mind that all our art prints are printed and processed manually, there might as well be minor variations in the size and exact position of the motif.

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Mary Sylvester (1725–1794) was born at Southold, Long Island. She was the daughter of Brinley and Mary Sylvester and the sister of Margaret, later Mrs. David Chesebrough (see 16.68.3). Her portrait was most likely painted in 1754, the year in which Blackburn painted the portrait of her sister and of Abigail Chesebrough (Stonington Historical Society, Connecticut). In accordance with her unmarried status, Blackburn depicted Mary Sylvester as a shepherdess, the lamb at her side a symbol of purity and innocence. Although an exact source has not yet been identified, it has been assumed that Blackburn derived this allegorical representation from a British mezzotint. In 1756 Mary Sylvester was married in Newport to Thomas Dering, a Boston merchant. The exceptionally fine carved, painted and gilded frame is original to the portrait.