Thomas Murray

1696

John Smith

Artist, English, probably 1652 - 1742

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 31.7 x 23.9 cm (12 1/2 x 9 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 34.5 x 25.4 cm (13 9/16 x 10 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.57

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 188, State undesc

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.

1926

  • Russell, Charles Edward. English Mezzotint Portraits and Their States. 2 vols. London: Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1926.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Ipse pinxit; lower center in plate: Tho: Murrey Pictor; lower right in plate: J. Smith fec: et exc.; by later hand, lower center in graphite: A 38 CS 188; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: RM 29 x 94 / CS 188 / P45569 / 22 / 213 x 225 / 318 x 237; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Dejea(?) 186 / VII 8.

Wikidata ID

Q76346470

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