Johannes Witt

1707

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: 28.2 x 20 cm (11 1/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 28.3 x 20.2 cm (11 1/8 x 7 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.58

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 279, State ii/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: So war Herr Witt gestalt and dem nichts schwartzes bliebe... / Verhellen seinen Kuhm auch in dein sinstern Grab / Warner Hassells Pinx. Johannes Smith Fecit Londini 1707.; lower right in plate: Zu schuldigen Ehren: gedachtnick ausgesezet von I.B.R.E.D.
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Wikidata ID

Q76346480

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