Miss Nelly O'Brien, c. 1771

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 35.4 x 25000 cm (13 15/16 x 9842 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Smith 1884, no. 7, State i/ii

Accession Number

2001.96.10

Artists / Makers

Samuel Okey (artist) British, active mid - late 18th century

Sir Joshua Reynolds (artist after) British, 1723 - 1792

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: J Reynolds Pinxt.; lower right in plate: Saml Okey Scupt.; by later hand on verso of mount in graphite: this is a Liechtenstein mount (NGS)

Provenance

Prince Liechtenstein (mount, according to Nicholas Stogdon); Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (C. G. Boerner Limited, New York); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.

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.