Head of a Man Wearing a Turban (from Life-Sized Heads, First Series), 1760, Mezzotint; second state, Plate: 19 7/8 × 13 15/16 in. (50.5 × 35.4 cm), Prints, Thomas Frye (Irish, Edenderry 1711/12–1762 London), In 1760, the pastel portraitist and porcelain manufacturer Thomas Frye published Twelve Mezzotinto Prints, from Designs in the Manner of Piazetta, Drawn from Nature and as Large as Life. Frye's evocative figures, although presumably based on living models, exceed the conventions of portraiture, and also function as character studies
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