{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O50516"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O50516/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2018LE5747/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2018LE5747/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2018LE5747","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2017KB8407","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O50516/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O50516","accessionNumber":"P.5-1957","objectType":"Pastel","titles":[{"title":"John Bacon RA","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Pastel portrait of John Bacon.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Russell, John (RA)","id":"A15041"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"pastel","id":"x32662"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Pastel on paper laid onto canvas","categories":[{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"}],"styles":[{"text":"British School","id":"x30967"},{"text":"Georgian","id":"AAT21048"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2018LE5747","2017KB8407"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"WS","id":"THES49603"},"free":"","case":"R","shelf":"104","box":"R"},{"current":{"text":"WS","id":"THES49603"},"free":"","case":"R","shelf":"104","box":"R"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"pastel","id":""}],[{"text":"frame","id":"AAT189814"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1792","earliest":"1792-01-01","latest":"1792-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"Signed and dated 1792"}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"P.6-1957","id":"O1067837"},"association":"Ensemble"}],"creditLine":"Given by Mr. Eustace V. Bacon, M.B.E.","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"42","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"Taken from Lionel Lambourne, British Watercolours in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1980"},{"dimension":"Width","value":"58.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"Taken from Lionel Lambourne, British Watercolours in the V&A, 1980"},{"dimension":"Height","value":"680","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Gilt frame","note":"FRAME"},{"dimension":"Width","value":"840","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Gilt frame","note":"FRAME"}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"J. Russell RA pinxit [he painted it]. In the 18th century pastel was  called 'crayon painting', and was considered a form of painting. ","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"P.5-1957 (with its companion-portrait, P.6-1957, q.v.) had been previously on loan to the Museum at intervals from 1864; it was also lent to the Russell exhibition at Graves' Galleries, November to December 1909 (No.8).  Another portrait of Bacon by Russell, similar in pose to P.5-157, but with the difference that the sitter is wearing a wig, was in April 1925 in the possession of Mr. John M. Bacon (reproduced in <i>The Connoisseur</i> of that date).  One or other of those portraits was exhibited by Russell as No.133 in the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1792.  P.5-1957 was engraved by A. Rosse, I. Collyer, A.R.A., H. Meyer and W. C. Edwards: the last of these gives the date 1792 for the original.\"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Pastel portrait of John Bacon RA (1740-1799), by John Russell RA (1745-1806), 1792.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1957-1958 </u> London: HMSO, 1964"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Bacon, John (the elder)","id":"N7592"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"man","id":"x35641"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"John Russell was an innovative pastellist, perfecting both the technique and the manufacture of pastel.  This portrait is a good example of the smooth blended technique for which he was renowned, creating a soft 'sfumato' effect by mixing his colours on the paper with his finger.","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["P.5-1957","P.5:1-1957"],"accessionNumberNum":"5","accessionNumberPrefix":"P","accessionYear":1957,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-05","recordCreationDate":"2000-12-14","availableToBook":false}}