The Gerbier Family, 1755

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 45.9 x 45.4 cm (18 1/16 x 17 7/8 in.)

sheet: 47.4 x 48.9 cm (18 11/16 x 19 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 86, State only

Accession Number

2001.118.31

Artists / Makers

James McArdell (artist) British, c. 1729 - 1765

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (artist after) Flemish, 1577 - 1640

Image Use

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Inscription

across lower center: The Original Picture by Sr. PETER PAUL REUBENS in the Collection of Samson Gideon Esqr. at BELVIDERE in KENT / to Whom this PRINT is Humbly Dedicated, By His Most Obedeient and Devoted Servant, William Jett.; lower left in plate: Wm Jett Delineavit; lower right in plate: Js. Mc. Ardell Fecit
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Provenance

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

Associated Names

Lennox-Boyd, Christopher
Stogdon, N.G.

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.