Nicola Cosimo

1706

John Smith

Artist, English, probably 1652 - 1742

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (cut inside platemark): 34.5 x 25 cm (13 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.53

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 61, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1884

  • Smith, John Chaloner. British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century. 4 vols. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1884.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: Hic est Romana Cosimus de Gente... J Smith; lower left in plate: G. Kneller Eques pinx; lower right in plate: I. Smith fec. 1706

Wikidata ID

Q76346435

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