Art, literature & history
Imaginary Portrait of an English Beauty
1762
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- mezzotint
- Dimensions
- sheet: 60.8 × 46.3 cm (23 15/16 × 18 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1981.73.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Thomas Frye. Imaginary Portrait of an English Beauty. Thomas Frye; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Frye,_Imaginary_Portrait_of_an_English_Beauty,_1762,_NGA_60950.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Imaginary Portrait of an English Beauty — Thomas Frye. 1762.
Medium: mezzotint.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 60.8 × 46.3 cm (23 15/16 × 18 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1981.73.2. Gift of Mrs. Hyatt Mayor.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.